Re: any one know Solaris 5?

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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