[Sunhelp] Sol8 on SS5-110

[Bill Bradford]

Try booting from "Software 1/2" cd, you get a "normal" solaris install.

Bill

On Thu, May 25, 2000 at 04:23:41PM -0500, ward at zilla.nu wrote:
> Welp, I just installed Solaris8 on an old SS5-110 (from Data Instruments; top 
> notch folks).  You can read about Sol8 everywhere else, but nobody seems to be
> installing it on old sun4m hardware.  I decided to give it a whirl.
>The installation had problems.  First, you boot from the installation CD, which
> copies a miniroot to your hard drive.  It boots from the hd, then fires up a
>rather clumsy java installation 'kiosk.'  Unfortunatel, mine would tell me that
>it was 'extracting' and display a spinning disk for up to 48 hours before I hit
> exit.  Hitting exit was exactly what it needed, as it continued into the
> installation process.  I was also able to hit exit after 10 minutes the next
> time I installed (first CDROM drive was bad).  I considered removing the AFX
> card and doing the serial console installation, but things worked out in the
> end.

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