Hello, I am having a big problem installing solaris 10 sparcIII on a sun fire box. For starters, it will not recognize the dvd and hence command "boot cdrom" will not do anything yet i have burned the image to disc. Anyone with any pointers on this or Solaris knowledge please assist. Regards, Kevin
Confirm that the dvd drive is actually not being recognized with the command 'probe-scsi all' then set 'auto-boot? false' Ensure the image is bootable. I had issues installing oracle solaris 10 in a Sunfire V440 SPARC system. It would take me through the steps until when it wants to copy the image it says ' no a solaris DVD found'. It turned out to be a faulty drive. Rgs, Kerich. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Kevin Mutuma <kkmtumah@gmail.com> wrote:
Hello,
I am having a big problem installing solaris 10 sparcIII on a sun fire box. For starters, it will not recognize the dvd and hence command "boot cdrom" will not do anything yet i have burned the image to disc.
Anyone with any pointers on this or Solaris knowledge please assist.
Regards, Kevin
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Or you can use your own laptop drive or image in your hardisk to install;;; By logging thru net-mgt - put an ip address in ILOM; then connect via your browser - password is "change me" Then once in through your browser - go to 'remote login/connection' download the java file (you must have java in your laptop) Then launch remote desktop connection Then share your mouse, keyboard and drive.. Point/Mount the OS image - and reboot the Sun Fire -- then Voila... Tell us how far you get should you decide to use this option.
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 'nearby' laptop and this time the command: 'boot cdrom0' worked like a charm. I wish i had stumbled upon this earlier,would have saved me over a day in troubleshooting. Only problem now is setting the static routes permanent as they all disappear on reboot. On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 3:00 PM, ndungu stephen <ndungustephen@gmail.com>wrote:
Or you can use your own laptop drive or image in your hardisk to install;;;
By logging thru net-mgt - put an ip address in ILOM; then connect via your browser - password is "change me"
Then once in through your browser - go to 'remote login/connection' download the java file (you must have java in your laptop)
Then launch remote desktop connection
Then share your mouse, keyboard and drive..
Point/Mount the OS image - and reboot the Sun Fire -- then Voila...
Tell us how far you get should you decide to use this option.
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