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Solaris installation for dummies

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Name: Caelth
Date: September 27, 2002 at 21:52:11 Pacific
OS: Solaris 8
CPU/Ram: 192MB
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I received SPARCStation 20 from a friend who pulled it out of office environment. I would like to perform a clean installation of Solaris 8 on it. Could anyone help me out with step-by-step instruction for a dummy? I have some experience with Solaris from an university and even with UltraSPARC assembly but Sun's website has tens of pages dealing with the installation itself and I don't want to read through all of it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.



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Name: martin_770
Date: September 28, 2002 at 13:41:09 Pacific
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as i was a sol newbie until 2 months a go ill try and do it easy:)
1.download sol9 in my uniformed opinion its easier than sol8.
2.install from cd1 of 2 NOT the install cd.
3.your external cd drive must be scsi id6 and support 512bytes.
4.start your ss20.
5.press the stop key and the a key to get the ok prompt.
6.type boot cdrom
7.follow the prompts to install.
8.any problems feel free to email me as ill be glad to help u out:)


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