Michael Laajanen wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> ohaya wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have several V240 machines that I need to get working. There are 4
> > total, and only 2 of them have DVD drives installed, so I am thinking
> > that I can do the Solaris installation on the 1st two, then remove the
> > DVD drives from those and move them to the other two machines.
> >
> > The first question that I have is how do I remove the drive?
> >
> > There are two metal tabs on top, and I was assuming that I could just
> > press "down" on them and then pull the drive out simultaneously, but it
> > seemed that the drive still wouldn't budge, and I didn't want to force
> > things.
> >
> > The Sun admin manual says to "unclip the drive", but it's not really
> > clear what "unclip" means.
> >
> > If anyone here is familiar with the V240, can you tell me what the
> > proper way is to remove the DVD drive?
> >
> > Also, when I move the DVD drive to the other machine, will it
> > automatically find the DVD drive, or do I have to do something like a
> > "boot -r"?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jim
>
> Not a answer to your question but maybe a answer to your problem.
>
> Why don't you setup one Sparc as boot server and do a net boot, much nicer.
>
> Also experience tells that things that are untouched works better that
> those systems that are fiddled with in mechanical way!
>
> So just copy the install CD's to a Sparc server of anysize aslong at it
> has ~3GB of diskspace to spare and then you can install all 4 at the
> same time!
>
> surf to http://www.bigadmin.com and search for "cd-free".
>


Michael,

FYI, I had started trying to setup a Solaris install server this
afternoon (and saw your post after I got home), and got it working. It
(net boot) is really cool!

I also was able to pull the DVD drive. As Jason suggested in his post,
I pushed down on both tabs, and pulled with a little more effort this
time, and the drive popped right out.

Jim