The "can't open" error gets thrown cause the kernal that the hardware wants isn't on the CD. The hardware will be pretty simple-minded about what kernel it wants to have, because other kernels won't run. No use trying to fool it. The hardware you have probably didn't exist when this CD was cut.
Go look through a Solaris install CD. You will see some perfectly ordinary directories containing kernels for the various hardware types. I found out a lot about this some years back when trying to run Jumpstart on some new hardware that showed up without install CD's. Ended up having to break out Snoop and other tools just to figure this one out. I second what other people said; you should have no trouble with binary compatibility. I have seen people tarball an oracle installation and run it on another Sun with a different OS version. I don't recommend it, but it works. Lauren --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
