[SunRescue] Return to Solaris

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, scohen - Stephen Cohen wrote:

> The documentation on http://docs.sun.com appears to assume that Solaris
> is already installed.  Even the section on "New Install" wants the user
> to modify files on a Solaris file system. 
> 
> At the ok prompt, using the command 'boot cdrom - browser' fails because
> it can't mount the root file system.  Using 'boot cdrom - install' hangs
> the system to the degree that the reset command must be issued. 

How much memory do you have?  If you have under 32MB then both of these
will fail.  Try just "boot cdrom" and see how far you get if you have 16MB
or 24MB.  Not that you would _want_ to run Solaris with under 32MB...

One other thing just occured to me: is your CDROM drive capable of
512-byte sectors?  Some non-Sun drives are quirky enough that the initial
PROM boot succeeds but the root fs can't be found. 

> How does one install Solaris 2.6 with the assumption that NOTHING should
> be located on the disks?  How will one format the disks, for example? 

A normal "boot cdrom" will throw you into the graphical installer, which
will ask for all of the information it needs (and will layout whatever
partitions you want).  It's very easy and user friendly (easily more so
than HP/UX and IRIX cold installs, IMHO).

> Another Sun box is available on my subnet, but I'm reluctant to go to
> the trouble of setting up either a client/server or web jumpstart boot
> process. 

This will only help if your CDROM drive is the problem.

Post a list of what hardware is in the machine, that would probably help.

-James