06-08-2005
*sigh*
/digressing_mode_on/
back then, in the good old days of the microchannel bus even booting was far easier than it is nowadays.
Who'd have thought back then, that these days will once be regarded as "good" ones, for chrissakes.
/digressing_mode_off/
Here is what you do: Put a monitor or terminal onto your 43P. Put the CD into the drive and switch on. After the IPL (firmware boot) there will ring a sort-of bell and on your screen will appear symbols for RAM, disk, Keyboard, etc. (LFT monitor) or the respective words "RAM", "disk", ... (terminal).
Press F4 *before* the last of the symbols/words appear and you get into a menu where you can select your installation media, etc. You can follow the instruction on the screen from there.
As an additional caveat I'm not sure if you can install 5.2 on a 43P, you *may* need a POWER-4 processor for 5.2, but I don't know that for sure.
Hope this helps.
bakunin
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installboot
installboot(1M) installboot(1M)
NAME
installboot - install bootblocks in a disk partition
SYNOPSIS
installboot bootblk raw-disk-device
The boot(1M) program, ufsboot, is loaded from disk by the bootblock program which resides in the boot area of a disk partition.
The ufs boot objects are platform-dependent, and reside in the /usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs directory. The platform name can be
found using the -i option of uname(1).
The installboot utility is a SPARC only program. It is not supported on the architecture. users should use installgrub(1M) instead.
bootblk The name of the bootblock code.
raw-disk-device The name of the disk device onto which the bootblock code is to be installed; it must be a character device which is read-
able and writable. Naming conventions for a SCSI or IPI drive are c?t?d?s? and c?d?s? for an IDE drive.
Example 1: Installing UFS Boot Block
To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0 on controller 1 of the platform where the command is being run, use:
example# installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk
/dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
/usr/platform/platform-name/lib/fs/ufs
directory where ufs boot objects reside.
/platform/platform-name/ufsboot
second level program to boot from a disk or CD
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
od(1), uname(1), boot(1M), init(1M), kadb(1M), kernel(1M), monitor(1M), reboot(1M), rpc.bootparamd(1M), init.d(4), attributes(5)
WARNINGS
The installboot utility fails if the bootblk or openfirmware files do not exist or if the raw disk device is not a character device.
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