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01-22-2012

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Reinstalling Solaris 9 on Sun Blade 100

For the past ten years I have owned a blade 100, and I had Solaris 9 running on it.
Due to the fact, 9 is woefully out of date, I wanted to try 10, but 10 needed more ram, so I beefed up the ram to the full 2 gig. I have two 15 gig ide drives in the box (stock drives). But unfortunately solaris 10 requires a dvd for the install media, something the blade 100 does not have, it only has the cdrom. So I thought I would look around for other sparc64 compatible OS, and since I like OpenSuse, I thought I would try Debian 6.03, since it supports sparc64, but after repeated attempts, I never got the Rage XL video to work with Debian. Frustrated, I decided to go back to Solaris 9, but the install always fails on the newfs part; the drives no longer will format Solaris UFS; are there drive partition tables which I deleted by accident? In the meanwhile, I have tried OpenBSD for sparc64 and it has no problems formatting, installing, and running video, but I am unenthused with the OpenBSD community, just a wee bit overzealous for my taste, having been flamed many times for appearing too ignorant. This begs the question once again, how do I reformat the system back to Solaris 9? I would want to make one disk 100% /export/home and the other disk the system disk. How to do it? Honestly newfs fails everytime, but Debian 6.03, OpenBSD, and FreeBSD all format the drives easily and consistently, but I somewhat miss the good ol Solaris! How to set it back up? Any help is appreciated.

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suninstall

suninstall(1M)                                            System Administration Commands                                            suninstall(1M)

NAME

       suninstall - install the Solaris operating system

SYNOPSIS

       suninstall

DESCRIPTION

       install-solaris(1M) is now the preferred command for starting and restarting the Solaris Installation program. It should be used instead of
       suninstall. suninstall is symbolically linked to install-solaris.

       suninstall is a forms-based and graphical subsystem for installing the operating system.

       suninstall exists only on the Solaris installation media (CD or DVD) and should only be invoked from there. Refer to the Solaris 10 Instal-
       lation Guide: Basic Installations for more details.

       suninstall allows installation of the operating system onto any standalone system. suninstall loads the software available on the installa-
       tion media. Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for disk space requirements.

USAGE

       Refer to the Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations for more information on the various menus and selections.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWcdrom (Solaris  instal-  |
       |                             |lation media)                |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       pkginfo(1), install(1M), install-solaris(1M), pkgadd(1M), attributes(5)

       Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations

NOTES

       It is advisable to exit suninstall by means of the exit options in the suninstall menus.

SunOS 5.10                                                          9 Sep 2004                                                      suninstall(1M)