[SPARCbook] Booting off a cdrom or floppy

[Michael M Delaney]

I have done all of that, and I think that my model cdrom drive isn't a
compadable blocksize.   Its really old, and it dosent say what speed it
is, so its possibly even a 1x drive.  I think tomorrow I can borrow a
cdrom that works on my computer though.  
Thanks,
Mike


On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl wrote:

> On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Michael M Delaney wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to boot solaris 2.5.1 off the floppy?  I tried booting it
> > off a cd, but the drive i borrowed from a friend is really old (scsi 10,
> > and it dosent have the drive speed marked on it, so its possibley even a
> > 1x drive.  Whenever I try to boot off of it, using "boot -SVR",  I get
> > errors like "unexpected data phase".  Is their any way to get it to boor
> > properly, or to get it to boot of the pcmcia net card?
> 
> Make sure you got the drive setup ok.
>  - SCSI bus is correct
>  - SCSI ID 6
>  - Compatible CDROM (Either SUN or one that understands the SUN blocksize
> like Plextor)
> 
> Then I would type 'boot cdrom'. (Note there is a FAQ dedicated to CDROM's
> on SUN.)
> 
> Hugo.
> 
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