Hello, Since your home zoo includes a number of weird machines, you might consider setting up a networked installation server.
In case of Solaris on SPARC that would involve BOOTP to give an IP address, TFTP to load the installer miniroot, and NFS to feed the rest of the distro. I am not sure if the recent OpenSXCE includes such an option, but Solaris 10 distros certainly should - see the subdirectory /Solaris_10/Tools for the script which should configure the install server on another Solaris machine and copy itself into the provided path. You can start this from a loopback-mounted ISO image of the distro that you can just download onto your installation server, bypassing matters of DVD media completely. Linux should suffice too, but you'd probably have to google up the procedure. Then on your UltraSPARC enter the OpenBOOT prompt (by BREAK over serial console or Stop+A on keyboard) and issue: ok> boot net This should get your installation going - maybe quite slowly at first while it detects addresses and fetches the installer. PS: I am not sure if USB-DVD is not an option... Good luck, //Jim _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
