[Sunhelp] Help installing Solaris 7 on SS20

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Thu Sep 9 23:29:46 CDT 1999


Hey guys!  I just got a new disk for my SS20, and I wanted to re-install
Solaris 7 so that I have it on there with all of the features and options
that I want.  I took the chassis from one of my old drives, and put it onto
my new drive.  I've got the new drive in the bottom spot.  It's an IBM UW
scsi drive, with an SCA connector; it's recgnized as target 3 when I do a
probe-scsi from the "ok" prompt, so I think that I've got the drive in there
right.  I got the solaris 7 media from sun, and I've taken the Solaris 7
(sparc) CD and tried to boot from it.  I used boot cdrom, and I've put the
CD into the internal CD drive.  I've also taken my 4 speed, 6 disk changer,
and tried putting in the boot command to make it boot from LUN 0 on target 4
(that drive), but that gives me the same error as when I use the internal
CD.  The error that I get is  "
boot: cannot open cprboot
Enter filename [cprboot]:
"
I've looked on docs.sun.com, and what they said was that that error message
meant that it couldn't find the solaris7 media in the CD-ROM drive.  Now, I
know that both the internal and external drives work, I've had the external
running off and on with my PC (changed the dip switch to enable 512 read
dohickey) and the internal one was running on the version of solaris that
was on the old drives.  Does anybody know what I should try to get this
working?  Thanks,
	Greg

P.S. Sorry for the length of this post, just trying to give all the info
that you might need to help me out.  






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