[ug-bosug] need help to install solaris on sun workstation w1100z

[Manish Chakravarty]

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 2:44 PM, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:20 PM, chinmayi sk <chinmayisk at yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
> > hi
> > i am the campus ambassador for nie, mysore.
> > i recently got permissions from college to use   the workstation for
>  and
> > the sun blade 1500 clients in college for future demos. Unfortunately it
> is
> > preloaded with  linux i need to load solaris on them  and  i need to be
> very
> > carefull not to "cause any harm " i was wondering if someone can help me
> do
> > it. pls provide step by step instructions . it would be great if someone
> can
> > come down someday to help me.
> >
>
> 1. Do not hesitate to experiment.
> 2. Try on only one system before attempting it on other systems.
> 3. If you have the media for the pre-installed OS, then the is all
> that you should need.
>
>
> 4. On the system that you intend to install, note down the system
> information - ipaddress, netmask, dns entries, etc if these are to be
> used after installing Solaris as well.
>
> Go ahead with the installation.
>
> If you need detailed instructions for the installation, I believe,
> docs.sun.com has the installation documentation.
> You may need to set the boot parameters for the installation from
> where it happens, I do not recall the same for sparc.
> Have cdrom, hard disk and network boot in that order.
>
> Feel free to post further queries if any.
>

Just to add to what Shiv said:
It's Sun Hardware, lucky you!
So there would be no hardware detection issues and no "harm"  at all :)
Go Ahead!
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