On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 09:48:11PM +0000, Taras Ciuriak wrote: > William Law wrote: > >Taras, > > I had similar troubles with my sparc5-110. I found that the first > >CD would not boot properly. I ended up resorting to boot floppies, then > >changing media to the CD for the rest of the installation. > > > >Just a thought :) > > Drat. > > Thanks William. Unfortunately, my version of the machine is floppy-less. > > I don't suppose a bog-standard floppy would work? Well, I suppose > not...I did see what looked like a floppy power connector when I had it > open, but no data cable to connect it to.../Taras
Seeing as how you're a wiz with PC's ~:^) you might find the most traction with the netbooting/installing method. Old Sun CDROM drives were notoriously bad/finicky about handling CDRs. Mine would only read CDRs that I didn't it to read. I replaced it with a modern SCSI cdrom drive and have been happy ever since. See the archives for netbooting/installing. The basic premise is setup one of your PCs as a rarp/tftp server .... a
