--- On Thu, 2/7/13, Michael Spacefalcon <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Michael Spacefalcon <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A poor SPARC user's introduction > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 4:29 PM > Robar Philip <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > A cursory net search found several SCSI DVD drives for > $35 to $70 (external= > > Yeah, after my initial query post I have looked on ebay and > found a > bunch of listings for internal ones (my preference) in about > the same > price range, or a little less. > > This is the route I'm going to take - ought to be much > easier than > having a total Solaris noob like me try to figure out how to > set up a > functional netinstall server on a foreign OS. > > Thanks everyone for the responses! > > SF In SPARCstation 1+ days, you needed a CD-ROM drive that did 512 byte sectors. Did they fix that in the transition to DVD? It was a huge hassle as there were only certain model drives that could be jumpered to 512 byte sectors. Have Fun! Reg _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
