It actually was a faulty dvd drive. I dont know if its a common problem based ou your answer. So I removed the drive and put one from a &#39;nearby&#39; laptop and this time the command: &#39;boot cdrom0&#39; worked like a charm. I wish i had stumbled upon this earlier,would have saved me over a day in troubleshooting.<br>
<br>Only problem now is setting the static routes permanent as they all disappear on reboot.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, ndungu stephen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ndungustephen@gmail.com">ndungustephen@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Or you can use your own laptop drive or image in your hardisk to install;;;</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">
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<span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">By logging thru net-mgt - put an ip address in ILOM; then connect via your browser - password is &quot;change me&quot;</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

<br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Then once in through your browser - go to &#39;remote login/connection&#39; download the java file (you must have java in your laptop)</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

<br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Then launch remote desktop connection</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

<br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Then share your mouse, keyboard and drive..</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

<br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Point/Mount the OS image - and reboot the Sun Fire -- then Voila...</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

<br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">Tell us how far you get should you decide to use this option.</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,153)">

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