On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:42 PM, L.Guruprasad <lgp171188 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> P.S.M.Swamiji wrote:
>
>> On 12/02/09 13:13, Guruprasad wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> In my college, we have Sun Blade 1500 workstations, Sun Ray 1G thin
>>> clients, Sun Fire 440 server available. We intend to setup a Sun lab with
>>> Solaris/opensolaris. I could see from the internet that these machines are
>>> outdated products, but still I know it should be possible to configure them
>>> with the latest versions of the OS available.
>>>
>>> Sun Blade 1500 workstations have 512 MB RAM and I'm not sure it will be
>>> good enough to install opensolaris-2009.06 on it and also I have not
>>> installed opensolaris on a sparc machine before. I have downloaded the
>>> solaris and opensolaris sparc isos and have them ready. Will it be possible
>>> to install and run opensolaris on the workstation?
>>>
>>
>
> I have the Solaris sparc iso burnt to a dvd (sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso).
> The Sun Blade 1500 machine that I'm going to try to install the os, has
> solaris 9 running already. I can't get the computer to boot from the DVD. By
> the time, monitor displays visual, the boot device is already chosen as
> 'disk' and it is booting from the hard disk. Is the sparc iso bootable? Is
> this the way of installing on sparc machines. I have no idea as this is the
> first time I am installing anything on the sparc hardware.
First try to get to the {ok} prompt. (press <STOP>+a) and then when you get
the ok prompt say boot cdrom -s. This should start your machine in single
user mode and then you can proceed with installation.
I hope it works.
Regards,
Abhishek
>
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards,
> Guruprasad
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