From: Omon Edeki (omon.edeki@nowellgroup.com)
Date: Thu Jan 06 2005 - 14:47:15 EST
Dear Sun managers,
Good afternoon. I am trying to install Solaris 8 on a Sun Ultra 10 Sparc
workstation. This system formerly had Solaris 8 on it, but we decided to do
a reinstallation to configure things the way we wanted them.Before doing
that we encountered a few problems
1.The system failed to recognize the Dell Ultra Sharp Monitor, when the
signal cable was plugged into the port behind the computer. To solve this we
researched and were told to remove the Video card attached to the mother
board, and this we did.The system now recognized the dell monitor and booted
in Solarid 8.
2.We ran sys-unconfig to reconfigure the system to change the hostname on a
reboot.We powered off the computer.Afterward we would go through the
sys-unconfig program in an indefinite loop.So I powered off the computer
each time i got stuck.
3.Lastly I tried to do a STOP A to try to go to the 'ok' prompt in order to
do a clean installation of Solaris 8 Installation CD, by running
ok boot cdrom [ENTER]
Here's what I am getting:
Boot device: /pci@1f, 0/pci@1,1/ide@3/cdrom@2,0:f File and args:
Can't read disk label.
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
ok
[end]
I want to do a clean installation of the Solaris 8 CD on the sparc ultra 10
computer.Please can anyone help me out? I looked at the solaris 8
installation guide, and it asked that I follow this procedure. Please
respond if you can help.Thanks a million!
Omon
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