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

[Richard Doty]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009 12:37:12 +0200 Andrew Gaylard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have an Ultra-60 (2x400MHz CPUs, 2 GiB RAM, elite-3D graphics)
> 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?
> - I don't have any other Solaris boxen, so jumpstarting is tricky (impossible?)
> 
> Can I do this?  How?

The approach I took for my Ultra-2 was to plug a SCSI DVD-ROM on
into the external SCSI port.  "boot disk4" worked fine.

Richard.

> 
> 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.
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