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Old 12-16-2003
Question stand alone wants to boot off network
Hello Everybody,
I have a Sun Sparc 5 that used to have Solaris 8 on it. I wanted to build my skills at installing the software and then all went wrong for me. This computer is a stand alone, not networked at all. So I got my hands on Solaris 9 Sparc version, I went through the install and at the end as I rebooted it now says that it is trying to boot off the network. I chose not networked when that choice was offered and now I can not get it to stop doing that. So I tried to install the software again, same thing. I changed the disk it was booting off of, no good. I have tried so many avenues and I have yet to get it to come back to a working state. Can anybody offer any sound advise on this matter. Please help me, as I can not study any material with this kind of situation.

robert
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Old 12-16-2003
Hi,

Are you sure the installation succedded ?

First, enter OB with Stop+A, and see if you can boot with "boot disk", if you don't, replace disk with your boot device and see if it boots... if you still can't, you have to check your boot-file and boot device settings...

If you don't know OB, start here... http://www.marchansen.com/tn105/
 
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