I just bought a used Sun Blade 150 (UltraSPARC IIe 650MHz, OpenBoot 4.6, 1025 MB RAM, and Ethernet address and Host ID both listed). I am new to Solaris (having moved from Linux). As soon as I boot up, I am met with the following: Boot device: net File and args: Link hasn't come up yet ((I have an Ethernet cable attached)) Will try to communicate anyway Network setup link failed Please check cable and try again Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet Network link setup failed...... ad nauseam............ I never receive a break in this and have no idea how to get out of it, so I don't have the option of following the forums that refer to "going to the OK prompt). I never get to the OpenBoot as all I have is this scrolling info I have no idea how to stop (and I'm not familiar enough with Solaris to understand what many of the other postings suggest doing; I have a Sun keyboard, but don't understand what all of the keys do [yet]). Would anyone please tell me the simplest way of moving forward? Also, could someone also tell me how to change the boot process? I'd like to install Solaris 10 and have purchased the 6/06 DVD but can't seem to get the DVD to boot. I have done the proverbial "RTFM"s, etc....; I just need a way of of this scrolling screen hell I seem to be stuck in. Thanks to all for reading and offering suggestions! Cheers!

The Openbios documents at Sun is your start. I forget the command but it tells the system to boot to the dvd drive. Well, my guess is one of two things. One is that the device isn't configured correctly in the bios (openbios). You do need to get the docs to go through all that. A steep learning curve. Second of course would be you are not connected to a network. Try a loopback ethernet cable. There is a way to boot to a cd and change the settings to bypass all of that. Start with the OEM docs at Sun.com and read up on openbios and the special keyboard keys that allow easy access. "Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10