Help booting Sparc 5 and 20 (Was: New old stuff)

Hello group, I just joined today and I want to ask a question about booting a sparc station 20. actually a 5 and a 20 were given to me with one monitor a key board. the 20 seems to want to boot but when I turn it on I get key board error and a msg to boot via a tty. what does that mean? although i am by no means a unix expert i do have some familiararity with hard ware and hooking it up.the screen comes on for aboput 3 seconds then blanks out. is the problem because i dont have a sun mouse hoooked up to the key board? I sufferd a leg amputation last january so puttering around the house is what i do. If there is anybody close to the san diego area that can give me an idea or 2 i would greatly appreiate it
thanx Robert

Hi Robert,

this is the PHP forum. You should ask your question in the UNIX forum or General Hardware forum, where it would be more on topic.

And speaking about topics.... yours *caugh* needs *caugh* some *caugh* work *caugh*
Please read the sticky about how to choose a topic....

Other then that, welcome to the forums

wrong forum wrong syntax..............my error.

No worries, just make sure you wont the next time
In the meantime, you could ask a moderator here to move your post to the right forum, where I hope somebody can help you (sorry to say I can't help you with this myself )

Regards