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Sun Solaris 8 Install from a CD
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Name: Mark Bashuk
Date: January 9, 2002 at 14:34:01 Pacific
Subject: Sun Solaris 8 Install from a CD
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Comment: Hi - I'm pretty new to sun machines and I was given A Sun SparcStation 5 for my birthday from my uncle who used the box as an auto-dialer for his company. Unfortunately, the password to the root login is unknown, but I did buy Sun Solaris 8 and just got a 411 Bootable CD-ROM drive. When I start up the computer, and press Stop + A - i then type boot cdrom, and it resets but gives me an error message. The only other thing - I have never used a tray-loading CD-ROM before and i might be putting it in wrong, but I have tried it facing both ways. Also and finally - i have never used SCSI either and do I need a terminiator on my 411 Drive?
thanks so much
Mark Bashuk
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Response Number 1
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Name: Anthony
Date: January 13, 2002 at 12:19:53 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Is the SCSI ID set to #6 on the CDROM? As for the tray, the cd should be face up so you can read the label and the metal part goes inside first.
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Response Number 2
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Name: dave
Date: January 20, 2002 at 19:16:13 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)if it is a new cdrom, you must do a boot -r to reconfigure the devices. it probably doesn't understand that you put a cdrom in there. if you don't have the root passwd, then after oyu get the cdrom working put the OS disk in the drive, and type boot cdrom -s this will drop you to root to change root type passwd root Done
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