[SunRescue] Installing SunOS 4.x on a Sun 3 box

JamesLockwoodjames at foonly.com JamesLockwoodjames at foonly.com
Wed Aug 9 20:27:28 CDT 2000


On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Paul Khoury - Tech Support wrote:

> Is there any way I can install SunOS 4.x on a Sun3
> without using a tape drive?  I thought about NetBSD,
> which I used before, but I'd like to give SunOS a shot
> for the heck of it.

You can boot off of a CDROM as well if your PROM revision is high enough.
Depends on which sun3.

> Or is netbooting/installing not possible?  What about the Sun 2/120?

Netbooting is very possible.  Works great, though SunOS 4 netbooting is
slightly less cookie-cutter than Solaris 2.

-James






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