[rescue] sparc10 wont read iso images

[Dan Williams]

On 4/14/05, Arthur Wouk <awouk at nilenet.com> wrote:
> i am trying to put solaris 9 onto my sparc 10s. i downloaded the iso
> images from the sun web site, burned them onto cds on a macintosh
> system which was available to me (i don't have a burner on my suns), and
> took the cds to my suns.
>
> i am working with two sparc10s with ross hypersparc 150mhz cpus, and
> each with over 400megs of ram.  each has an external cdrom drive.
> each has one internal boot drive and an external hard drive in a 411
> box. no other  obvious differences. each is running the 2.25R boot prom.
>
> at first neither drive on either machine could see the cds.  i kept
> putting in the software 1of2 cd and then the the machines started
> reading them. so i can put software 1of2  on both machines. when it
> comes to software 2of2, one of the machines reads it perfectly, but the
> other hasn't read it at all as yet (over 25 tries). i tried exchanging
> the cd drives, but that doesn't change matters, the problem seems to
> be in the sparc10 itself.
>
> anyone have any clues as to what is going on?  why would one machine
> refuse the cd so many times?
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If it is working one on machine nfs share the cd rom drive and mount
it on the other machine, or copy the cd as an image and mount that
then share it.

Dan