[rescue] Help needed with Sun V65x

[Peter Stokes]

Hi Lionel

There was a DVD as an option on the V65x, it is an IDE one as you will realise
(pn 370-6043). The issue I found was that a lot of the DVDs are set to slave
on the IDE and this will need to be set to master as used on other Sun
systems. I would suggest you look to beg/borrow/steal(not really) a DVD from a
system which has just a DVD and SCSI disks, not one which has internal IDE
disks such as laptop etc.Example of Sun systems with similar config are
V120/V210/V240/V20Z.

I have some, but guess you are US based?

As you say most software for 10 came on DVD, but early versions did come on CD
as an option.

Peter
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On 18 Feb 2014, at 02:49, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I was hoping to install Solaris on this V65x I cane across, but the only
> ISOs I can find are either DVDs (Solaris 10) or CD-ROMs for a version of
> Solaris my hardware doesn't support (Solaris 11.1)...
>
> Is there such a thing as Solaris 10 install CD-ROM? Is an ISO available?
>
> I tried USB DVD drives, no go. I tried swapping the internal CD with a DVD
> drive, no go. (HW not even recognized by BIOS)...
>
> Any pointers would be great, for now I am limited to OS I have CDs for,
> nothing off DVD...
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lionel
>
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> Lionel Peterson
> lionel4287 at gmail.com
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