[rescue] So, I'm bringing up my E3000....

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Tue Apr 6 09:25:12 CDT 2004


On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 02:21:16PM +0000, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > From: Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net>
> > Date: 2004/04/06 Tue PM 01:59:18 GMT
> > To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] So, I'm bringing up my E3000....
> 
> > Does Solaris 9 no longer honor the -w parameter for "no
> > windows, just give me a damn shell"?  
> 
> I thought it was "text" like:
> 
>    boot cdrom text
> 
> to install via console - or Solaris will figure it out if you don't have a framebuffer installed, at least in my exp.

I can get a console installer OK.  What I want right now is just a shell
to do some checking and testing.  (I tried to just boot -s, but I seem
to be unable to remember the root password for the machine.)


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