Hi all,
I'm totally newbie with sun, I have experience only with linux.

I have a Sun Ultra 10 and I'm trying to install Solaris (8 or 9).

Computer come without cdrom, so I plug an old cdrom.
Ultra 10 recognize my cdrom or must I plug a "special" cdrom?

btw, I do nothing about boot on Sun Machines; now I can see the initial
screen (with alt+A), but I don't know how to boot the machine (is there
a system installed?).

I try 'boot cdrom' but nothing seems happen.

I have also see that there is a network adapter, can I use this to do a
boot?

I'm totally newbie, is there a guide for install Solaris?

Thanx a lot.

galliva

> Computer come without cdrom, so I plug an old cdrom.
> Ultra 10 recognize my cdrom or must I plug a "special" cdrom?

Any IDE CDROM configured as a slave should work fine.

> btw, I do nothing about boot on Sun Machines; now I can see the initial
> screen (with alt+A)

When the machine is powered up, you should see OpenBoot start up. When it
says "Initializing Memory", hit Stop+A on your keyboard.

You should now see an "OK" prompt.

Type probe-ide and report back what is output.

You should see your CD drive listed. If not, check connections and try
fiddling with the master/slave/cable select jumper.

Assuming you do, put the Solaris 8/9 install CD in the drive and type "boot
cdrom".

If that doesn't work, get back to us and we'll tell you how to proceed!

Cheers

Alex

Alex Harrington wrote:


> Type probe-ide and report back what is output.

ok probe-ide

Device 0 (Primary Master)
ATA Model: ST34342A
Device 1 (Primary Slave)
Removable ATAPI Model: FX320S
Device 2 (Secondary Master)
Not Present
Device 3 (Secondary Slave)
Not Present

ok boot cdrom

Boot device: /pci@1f,/pci@1,1,/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:

Can't open boot device

> You should see your CD drive listed. If not, check connections and try
> fiddling with the master/slave/cable select jumper.
>
> Assuming you do, put the Solaris 8/9 install CD in the drive and type "boot
> cdrom".
>
> If that doesn't work, get back to us and we'll tell you how to proceed!

In my cdrom I Put the (downloaded)

Solaris 9 Installation CD, Multi-language (sol-9-u7-install-sparc.zip,
371.32 MB)

> Cheers
>
> Alex
>

Thanx a lot, galliva.

galliva wrote:
> Can't open boot device

Ok.

> In my cdrom I Put the (downloaded)
>
> Solaris 9 Installation CD, Multi-language (sol-9-u7-install-sparc.zip,
> 371.32 MB)

Did you unzip the file "sol-9-u7-install-sparc.zip" and burned the
*resulting* *file* as *image* on the cd-rom?

Alex

On Sunday 01 August 2004 10:28 am in comp.sys.sun.hardware galliva wrote:

> ok probe-ide
>
> Device 0 (Primary Master)
> ATA Model: ST34342A
> Device 1 (Primary Slave)
> Removable ATAPI Model: FX320S
> Device 2 (Secondary Master)
> Not Present
> Device 3 (Secondary Slave)
> Not Present
>
> ok boot cdrom
>
> Boot device: /pci@1f,/pci@1,1,/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:

Your CDROM should be on Secondary master.
Either fix it or use
boot /pci@1f,/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f

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Chris Newport wrote:

> Your CDROM should be on Secondary master.
> Either fix it or use
> boot /pci@1f,/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@1,0:f

Now is working!

Thanx a lot.