Trying to install Solaris 10 on SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine

From: haim [howard] roman (roman@jct.ac.il)
Date: Wed Jun 29 2005 - 07:05:14 EDT


(1) When I try to install Solaris 10 on my SPARC from a CD, it boots
    from the CD, but it gets stuck after pringing "Configuring
    Devices".

(2) Hardware info:

    (A) "uname -a" returns:
        SunOS ekev 5.9 Generic_112233-02 sun4u
        sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-Engine

        (as you can see, it currently runs Solaris 9)

    (B) Model: Axil AXi-300 series
    (C) CPU: sparcv9 +vis 360 MHz
    (D) RAM: 512 MB
    (E) Disk: SCSI 8.5 GB GB

(3) The CDs:

    (A) I downloaded them from Sun, using Sun Download Manager.
    (B) I downloaded the images & burned them on Linux machines.
    (C) The "file" command on my Linux gives the following info:

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
sol-10-GA-sparc-v1-iso.iso: Sun disk label
                              'CD-ROM Disc for SunOS Solaris Installation '
                              10 alt cyls, 0 blocks
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
sol-10-GA-sparc-v2-iso.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
sol-10-GA-sparc-v3-iso.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
sol-10-GA-sparc-v4-iso.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
sol-10-lang-GA-sparc-iso.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

(4) According to the system requirements that I read, this HW should
    be able to run Solaris 10.

Thanks,
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