Note, there is a project to create a text based installer for Sparc: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/TextInstallerProject/
Regards, Brian Mauro M. wrote: > I bumped into the same problem and wasted a few CDs before asking the same > question. > > The answer is that OpenSolaris can be installed from a CD only on an > intel/amd based server. Then you can use that server to install on sparc. > > Since I did not have an intel server to spare I eventually gave up on > opensolaris. > > Too bad that Sun does not support Sparc CPUs first. > MM. > -- W. Brian Leonard Technology Evangelist 408.404.6884 http://blogs.sun.com/observatory