On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 11:18:47PM -0700, David Huerta wrote:
> I have a Sparc Station 5 running Solaris 9, on which I plan to re-install
> the OS (Sol8 this time, couldn't afford a copy of 9, at least not for the
> SPARC platform). I am not very familiar with SPARC-based hardware, but I
> hear these puppies have no bios, but rather some other boot utility. My
> question is: How can I go about changing the boot order to boot from the
> CD?
SPARC machines use Open Firmware.
Starting from <
http://www.google.com/search?q=sparc+boot+from+cd>, I
found <
http://www.computing.net/solaris/wwwboard/forum/2961.html>, which
says to hit STOP-A (or, if memory serves, you can send a BREAK instead
(since PC keyboards don't have a STOP key) if you're using a serial
console) and then type "boot cdrom" at the ok prompt.
BTW, if you want to run Solaris 9, it doesn't cost anything if you're
running it non-commercially on a single-CPU SPARCstation. See
<
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/>.
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