[rescue] boot cdrom, and the efficacy thereof

Phil Stracchino alaric at caerllewys.net
Mon May 24 03:14:54 CDT 2004


On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 01:13:44AM -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 2004, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> 
> > I find myself moved to observe how amazingly much better boot cdrom
> > works on a Sun box when the CD is actually *physically present in the
> > drive*....
> 
> And I'm sitting back watching JumpStart DTRT on three Netras and an
> Ultra 1.  I think the last time I installed Solaris from CD was when I
> decided to sit down and build a JumpStart server.

*nod*  maybe that's what I should do with my U1, since it doesn't look
like I'm going to be able to get enough for it to make it worthwhile
selling it.

Not that I need to install Solaris very often, having only three Solaris
boxes, only one of which is actually in regular use....



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