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Operating Systems Solaris Sun Solaris Enterprise E250 x64 Help Post 302581150 by cubemonkey on Monday 12th of December 2011 08:01:56 AM
Old 12-12-2011
I'm guessing you could probably not boot from usb on that system. The Sun USB-FAQ states:

Sparc systems with USB 2.0 support can boot from USB disks if the OBP(Open Boot Prom) is upgraded to version 4.27 or later. Before you can boot Solaris from USB disk, you have to install Solaris on the disk first. Installing on USB memory sticks is not recommended as the number of writes to these sticks is limited.

If you have another sun box, you could always set up a jumpstart server and install over the network...
 

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UFTDI(4)						   BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 						  UFTDI(4)

NAME
uftdi -- USB support for serial adapters based on the FT8U100AX and FT8U232AM chips SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following lines in your kernel configuration file: device uftdi device ucom Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5): uftdi_load="YES" DESCRIPTION
The uftdi driver provides support for various serial adapters based on the FTDI FT2232C, FT8U100AX and FT8U232AM chips. The device is accessed through the ucom(4) driver which makes it behave like a tty(4). HARDWARE
The uftdi driver supports the following adapters: o B&B Electronics USB->RS422/485 adapter o Elexol USB MOD1 and USB MOD3 o HP USB-Serial adapter shipped with some HP laptops o Inland UAS111 o QVS USC-1000 o Buffalo PC-OP-RS / Kurouto-shikou KURO-RS universal remote o Prologix GPIB-USB Controller SEE ALSO
tty(4), ucom(4), usb(4) HISTORY
The uftdi driver appeared in FreeBSD 4.8 from NetBSD 1.5. BSD
November 22, 2006 BSD
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