OK I've got my hands on a tasty ultra45, the only problem is its got no DVD drive , cable or tray. I tried to make an adapter but I couldn't get the pinouts for the sun 50way IDE cable. I'm trying now to do a netboot of the 0906 iso using a tftp server. I've setup a tftp server on a windows laptop, named the iso using the host id I've configured the network-boot arguments on the sparc to host-ip=192.168.1.2, file=tftp://192.168.1.1/ the sparc connects, negotiates to 100fdx then starts to sdownload the file. PArt way through the file it bombs out with some bus error that I've seen some other people asking about. I'm sure its not a hardware fault, its almost as if I've forgotten to set something up.
Baring in mind although I've had a few sparks before, I'm completely unfamiliar with network boots and installs, and not that knowledable about solaris in general. Please can someone help me as I'm completely at sea and have no idea how to progress further. Thanks loads M -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
