Solaris

Hi there. I'm trying to upgrade a Sun Blade 100 to Solaris 9.

I downloaded and burned the install, disc 1, disc 2 and tools CDs from Sun. I turned off auto-boot, put in the CD and enter the following:

Code:

# boot cdrom -nowin

The cdrom boot starts, and I get prompted to choose a language (English), then I get the message:

Code:

giving up.
/usr/openwin/bin/xinit: Interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server
/usr/openwin/bin/xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.
#

(the # is the single-user command prompt).

I have tried with -s, -nowin and just boot cdrom. What's going on? Why is it complaining about X server when I am telling it to boot with nowin?

Also, the Sun manuals are great for happy-path installations but I don't see anything with these kind of error messages. If someone could point me to some helpful links at bigadmin/Sun I'd appreciate it. Thanks.

I have at least gotten the upgrade going by using suninstall (booting from CD1 instead of the install CD). It's CLI and clunky but at least it works.

Still curious about the X server thing but wanted to post a followup so this isn't one of those millions of support forum posts with a question and no answer...

Thanks for posting back. I think it is most likely that you didn't get an answer, becasue nobody who has to do this regularly would ever use the install CD, it's just too slow, and anyone who does this on more than a couple of machines just builds a jumpstart server, it's easier and faster that way.