Ultra10 'Boot device: net'

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Mar 21, 2002 | 02:19 PM

dowser

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I just won an Ultra 10 to teach myself Solaris with. Switch on and it tries to boot from the netowrk - how do I break this?!

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Richard

Mar 21, 2002 | 02:43 PM

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STOP A will take you to the boot prom command prompt.

ok>

If the machine does not have solaris installed localy shove a cdrom in and do:

ok> boot cdrom

and the cd will boot and do an install.

Otherwise you need to find out where the Kernel is on the Hard Disk to specify it to boot from there.

(I could be completely wrong though as its ages since I messed with boot options on a Sun

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[Edited by ScoobyJawa - 3/21/2002 2:45:30 PM]

Mar 21, 2002 | 03:24 PM

dowser

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Many thanks! Just need to find a bootable disk or a cd now....

Richard

Mar 22, 2002 | 03:32 PM

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also if the U10 is in diag mode, it will probally boot from the network. For solaris stuff, try www.sunhelp.org..

Mar 22, 2002 | 05:33 PM

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You should be able to download and burn a Solaris CD for free from www.sun.com.

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Mar 23, 2002 | 12:52 AM

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If you're going to download from sun, you might as well get solaris 9 pre-release.

FWIW, I also grabbed the new 8_recommended patches tarball (Solaris 8 version), there were still some packages that needed updating.

Steve