[SunHELP] Hard drive.

[Kurt Huhn]

You need a SCSI hard drive for your Sparc 10 - an IDE drive won't work.  No
worries - SCSI HDs are plentiful (and inexpensive) these days.  For your
Sparc - you don't need (nor will you find) a floppy boot image.  To install
Solaris 8 you need a supported CD-ROM reader, the Solaris 8 CD-ROM, and a
little know-how.  The know-how can be found on the sunhelp site in the FAQs
section, and with a google search.  The CD-ROM can be sources from Sun -
either download the ISO or buy the retail pack.  The CD reader needs to be
SCSI as well - capable fo 512 byte blocks in order to boot the system from
the CD-ROM.

Kurt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Meng, Andrew" <Andrew.Meng at capitalone.com>
To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 4:09 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] Hard drive.


> Hello,
>
> A Hard drive in a Sparcstation 10 seems to be damaged. I am wondring if I
> can use a normal IDE disk for PC to replace it or I have to get a sun
> specific hard disk? By the way, where I can find the floppy boot image(sol
> 8) to boot the system and use some kind of software to repair the damage
> disk?
>
> Thanks a lot!
> Andrew
>
>
>
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