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Operating Systems Solaris Sun Hard Drive Wipes Post 302655021 by Tenuous on Tuesday 12th of June 2012 04:09:53 PM

06-12-2012

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Sun Hard Drive Wipes

Greetings!!

I've been tasked with decommissioning a group of older Sun servers. I have several SunFire 280r among them as well as some others. I have asolutely no experience with Sun systems and find myself in a bit of a pickle. I need two things

... someone to explain to me in grade school level terms how to get one of these bohemoths to boot from a CD.
... some input/feedback on best practices to get DoD level hard drive wipes for these bad boys.

I thank you for you consideration.

---------- Post updated at 04:09 PM ---------- Previous update was at 03:31 PM ----------

Okay, so after alot of digging (started several hours before posting here) I have finally found some of my own answer...

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/...kuh/index.html

The question I have now is when am I supposed to see the OK prompt? It appears to have the HDD set for autoboot. The [break] key just gives me a ^[[208z

Any ideas or help please?

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cvcredir

cvcredir(7D)							      Devices							      cvcredir(7D)

NAME

       cvcredir - virtual console redirection driver

DESCRIPTION

       The  cvcredir  virtual console redirection driver is a STREAMS-based pseudo driver that supports the network console provided on some plat-
       forms. The cvcredir driver interfaces with the virtual console driver cvc(7D), and the  virtual console	daemon,  cvcd(1M).

       The  cvcredir driver receives console output from cvc and passes it to  cvcd. It receives console input from  cvcd and passes it to  cvc.

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |Sun    Enterprise     10000  |
       |			     |servers,	 Sun   Fire   15K  |
       |			     |servers			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcvc.u 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       cvcd(1M), attributes(5), console(7D), cvc(7D)

       Sun Enterprise 10000 SSP Reference Manual

       Sun System Management Services (SMS) Reference Manual

SunOS 5.10							    15 Sep 2000 						      cvcredir(7D)