any one know Solaris 5?

[Shawn Badger]

The system collects information form the phone system and the phone
people are in control of it, so they always use root and have no other
accounts on the machine. I just found out we had this machine today when
I came in and it was down.
I am able to get to the go prompt, but the system would just report
errors when I tried "boot cdrom -s". I did not think of installing
Solaris on an old workstation and rebuilding that way. I will give it a
shot.

Thanks for the idea.



On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 16:06 -0700, Micah DesJardins wrote:
> Sorry Shawn,  I don't know Sun OS 5.5.1 at all, but how was a user
> able to do this in the first place? That link should have been root
> access only!
> 
> When you say the system isn't booting, can you be more specific?  At
> what point is it failing and what comes up on the screen? Are you able
> to use Stop+A to abort the boot process and try to get into single
> user mode?  Hopefully you've found help. If not, you may want to see
> if you can pop the drive out of that machine and mount it in another
> PC. I believe on the Ultra 5s it should be a standard EIDE hard disk
> and you should be able to install Solaris 9 or 10 on most commodity PC
> hardware and mount the other drive to fsck it or poke around.
> 
> Good luck!
> 
> Micah
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