[SunRescue] CD ROM read error ?

Paul Khoury pkhoury3 at earthlink.net
Sat Feb 5 15:32:15 CST 2000


On Sat, 5 Feb 2000 11:40:07 -0800, Kurt Huhn wrote:

>But you're using it on old hardware.  I had the same problem with SS1s that
>I wanted to install Solaris 2.6 on.  I tried to use a Sony CD-ROM drive with
>the same error.  After being enlightened by my future brother-in-law I
>bought an old Sun drive off of Ebay and it worked - slow, but worked.

Wow, weird - I installed 2.6 last night on the same drive, no problem,
and 2.4 works as well - and this was 2.6 server (I only installed it as a test machine
for studying along with my sys admin book).

I was just puzzled that one works, the other doesn't.









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