Will Mur wrote: > Hi, I am on a university campus and we have a single, lonely, isolated, Sun > Ultra 45 SPARC workstation, in a sea of Windows x86 computers. I would like > to convert that workstation from Solaris to OpenSolaris because we have zero > funding to maintain a contract on that computer to install updates. Also, > that computer currently has several issues and I would like to do a complete > reinstall of the OS. > > So, is there a way to install OpenSolaris on a SPARC computer without having > access to another Solaris or OpenSolaris workstation? I have seen the > instructions for the automated installer, but I am not willing to install > OpenSolaris on another computer to act as an install server, unless I can put > it in a virtual machine. More importantly, the networking setup required for > the automated installer is a nightmare for a university campus (DHCP server, > ...). There has to be an easier solution than this. > > Thanks for the input,! > > W >
http://alexeremin.blogspot.com/2009/11/opensolaris-sparc-snv125-livecd.html
