[indiana-discuss] Installation options for an Ultra-60

[jan damborsky]

Hi Andrew,


On 04/07/09 12:37, Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics)

It is very likely that your graphic card would not work
on OpenSolaris, as only XVR-100, XVR-300, & XVR-2500
are supported on Sparc platform.

> and I'm keen to install OpenSolaris.  There are three wrinkles:
>
> - the box only has a CDROM, not a DVDROM
> - my OBP is 3.31.  That means that AI images won't work, right?

Yes, this is correct - at least 4.17 version is required with wanboot
support. This capability can be  determined on an existing system by
executing the command

    # eeprom | grep network-boot-arguments

If the network-boot-arguments parameter is set or if the following
output is displayed

    network-boot-arguments: data not available.

then the OBP can be used with the Automated Installer.

> - I don't have any other Solaris boxen, so jumpstarting is tricky (impossible?)
>
> Can I do this?  How?

It is not straightforward for now, since AI is the only supported way
to install OpenSolaris on Sparc for the time being.

>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
> PS: I'm happy to update the OBP to a newer revision, but I haven't found one.
> I guess 3.31 is the latest for this hardware.

This is correct - I have checked on sunsolve that newer version
is not available.

Thank you,
Jan