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Boot disk for solaris 8
Name: kathy t Date: April 7, 2003 at 20:44:05 Pacific OS: solaris 8 CPU/Ram: sunblade 100 512M
Comment:
Hi all,
I am trying to boot my sunbalde 100 box from CD ROM, but keep getting the message
Bad magic number in disk label Can't open disk label package Can't open boot device
Is there any sites where I can download the installation disk 1 and 2? Thank you.
Name: David Perry Date: April 8, 2003 at 09:27:45 Pacific
Reply:
Have you looked at sun.com ? They at least used to have downloadable iso files for solaris 8 ( sparc version ), although they may have replaced the 8.x version with 9.x
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Response Number 2
Name: joe m Date: April 8, 2003 at 09:52:36 Pacific
Reply:
Solaris is preinstalled on the Sun Blade 100 workstation. If reinstalling Solaris 8 10/00 or Solaris 8 1/01 for any reason, the corresponding Solaris Operating Environment CD (OECD) must be used:
OECD 10/00 (704-7610) OECD 1/01 (704-7617)
8 - 4/01 does not need the supplement.
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Response Number 3
Name: kathy t Date: April 8, 2003 at 19:00:30 Pacific
Reply:
Thank you very much for the replies. When I inherited this box, the root password is lost and I don't have any OECD for it. Is there any other way that I can reset the root password besides booting from OECDs? I can access the system as a regular user.
I checked on Sun's site. They have Solaris 9 for download at http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html. Can I boot from this file?
Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
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Response Number 4
Name: David Perry Date: April 9, 2003 at 04:21:51 Pacific
Reply:
Yes, I believe the blade will be happy with solaris sparc v 9. Download, unzip, burn the CDs and try it.
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Response Number 5
Name: kathy t Date: April 10, 2003 at 20:42:46 Pacific
Reply:
The Solaris 9 CD worked like a charm! Thank you for all your help.
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