[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

[Lionel Peterson]

Thanks - this is great info to get me started.

If I can use a USB CD/DVD drive that's great, really makes things easier.

I will try the OpenSXCE live/install image from here (
http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD )
and give it a whirl tomorrow. it will be nice to see this running, but it
is a bit noisy (not unbearable, just noisy).

If this goes the way I think it will, I should be able to just burn a DVD
from my downloaded iso, plug in a USB DVD player, and then from the 'ok'
prompt just "boot-cdrom' and the rest is as I remember/expect.


On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:

> Hello Lionel,
>
>
> On 04/ 4/13 03:33 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I've had this lying around for a while, decided it was time to do
>> something
>> with it. "It" is a SunFire V240 w/ 2 CPUs of unknown speed, with 4x wiped
>> HDs (2x 72G 2x146G SAS) and 8 Gigs of RAM. It powers-up fine, runs through
>> all diagnostics, then stops and drops to the open-boot prompt ('ok').
>>
>> I'd like to get this running, I presume Solaris is still an option (albeit
>> an older release w/ no patches available), but other choices must be
>> available - suggestions?
>>
>
> Solaris is an option for you, up to the current (and just recently
> released) Oracle Solaris 10u11.
>
> The V240 is a Sun4u.  Solaris 11+ are limited to Sparc M-series, Sparc
> T-series and X86 64 bit only.
>
> You can install the old OpenSolaris Indiana or OpenSolaris Nevada.
>
> Currently, there is this distro that you should be able to install the
> OpenSXCE Sparc distro.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> And, of course, since this server does not have a DVD drive on-board, how
>> should I go about installing an OS? Is a USB optical drive an option? USB
>> flash drive? I don't have a boot server available and would prefer to not
>> set one up if at all possible.
>>
>
> You could find/acquire/borrow a DVD for this box.
>
> You can plug in a USB DVD drive and install from that.
>
> I have never installed from a USB stick, but I don't know why that
> wouldn't work.
>
> You can set a jumpstart server.  If you don't have a box to devote to
> being a jumpstart server, you can set up a jumpstart server in VirtualBox
> VM, or something similar.
>
> hope this helps,
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
>> I can connect to the machine and watch Power-on tests, and can interact
>> with the OBP via a serial connection.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lionel
>>
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Lionel Peterson
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