UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

I'm sure you have discovered this already, But just for compleatness and for anyone else that might be interested, You are prompted to set the root password at the end of the install and you use boot cdrom - install from the OK prompt to install Solaris

Oops, I forgot the - install. Thanks Tornado for the correction and the exact info on when the root password gets set.

rhfrommn, Tornado and Ebbi:

Thanks so much for your informative advice. My situation is awkward. The SunBlad 150 only use USB interface connector. I don't have Sun keyboard and Mouse with USB connectors. I have got a Sun keyboard with Sun interface connector. But it can not be used on this box. So I am using regular Dell USB keyboard and mouse instead. On Dell keyboard, there is no STOP key. I couldn't find the same key on regular Dell keyboard. If I don't have this STOP key, I can not get OK prompt and boot from cdrom. Do you guys kown how to work this around? Thanks.

From a windows style keyboard try ctrl-break instead.

Here's a link with some posts about exactly your question.
http://unix.ittoolbox.com/groups/tec...-prompt-692294

rhfrommn, Tornado and Ebbi:

Thanks so much. It is working. I do boot from cdrom and start to install solaris 10 on the machine. You are the gurus.

FYI:
To get to the OK prompt type

Code:

init 0

To stop a system booting into run level 3 and stopping at the OK prompt set the OBP variable auto-boot to false.
ie:
auto-boot?=false

You can use eeprom to set this variable from a running system that is not at the OK prompt.

Tornado:

Thanks again for your help.