[rescue] Help with SunFire V240 Server

[Cory Smelosky]

On 04/04/2013 05:01 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
> Thanks - this is great info to get me started.
>
> If I can use a USB CD/DVD drive that's great, really makes things easier.
>
> I will try the OpenSXCE live/install image from here (
> http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/MartUX_OpenIndiana+oi_151a+SPARC+LiveDVD )
> and give it a whirl tomorrow. it will be nice to see this running, but it
> is a bit noisy (not unbearable, just noisy).

Be forewarned, OpenSXCE doesn't have properly functioning zones yet. 
I'm willing to help you if you attempt zones...I got solaris 10 branded 
zones to work.

>
> If this goes the way I think it will, I should be able to just burn a DVD
> from my downloaded iso, plug in a USB DVD player, and then from the 'ok'
> prompt just "boot-cdrom' and the rest is as I remember/expect.
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.cc> wrote:
>
>> Hello Lionel,
>>
>>
>> On 04/ 4/13 03:33 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I've had this lying around for a while, decided it was time to do
>>> something
>>> with it. "It" is a SunFire V240 w/ 2 CPUs of unknown speed, with 4x wiped
>>> HDs (2x 72G 2x146G SAS) and 8 Gigs of RAM. It powers-up fine, runs through
>>> all diagnostics, then stops and drops to the open-boot prompt ('ok').
>>>
>>> I'd like to get this running, I presume Solaris is still an option (albeit
>>> an older release w/ no patches available), but other choices must be
>>> available - suggestions?
>>>
>>
>> Solaris is an option for you, up to the current (and just recently
>> released) Oracle Solaris 10u11.
>>
>> The V240 is a Sun4u.  Solaris 11+ are limited to Sparc M-series, Sparc
>> T-series and X86 64 bit only.
>>
>> You can install the old OpenSolaris Indiana or OpenSolaris Nevada.
>>
>> Currently, there is this distro that you should be able to install the
>> OpenSXCE Sparc distro.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> And, of course, since this server does not have a DVD drive on-board, how
>>> should I go about installing an OS? Is a USB optical drive an option? USB
>>> flash drive? I don't have a boot server available and would prefer to not
>>> set one up if at all possible.
>>>
>>
>> You could find/acquire/borrow a DVD for this box.
>>
>> You can plug in a USB DVD drive and install from that.
>>
>> I have never installed from a USB stick, but I don't know why that
>> wouldn't work.
>>
>> You can set a jumpstart server.  If you don't have a box to devote to
>> being a jumpstart server, you can set up a jumpstart server in VirtualBox
>> VM, or something similar.
>>
>> hope this helps,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I can connect to the machine and watch Power-on tests, and can interact
>>> with the OBP via a serial connection.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any assistance you can provide.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Lionel
>>>
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