UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

in all honesty the smartest thing to do since you now have it at your home is to reinstall and only load what you need. exspecialy if you are going to use it as a web server.

to get media you can order it from sun for a couple of dollars. but the fact you dont have a cdrom is prolly going to hurt you most.

if you dont have the root password you can recover it by booting off the cdrom. if you dont have the cdrom you have to hax0r it. and that is something we dont advocate here.

OK I do not have a cdrom. I do hav the root password.

So say I do gat a CD of the media... Is it then possible to make the instalation via the Macor someting like that?


/martin

Optimus_P is right about the cdrom - it's really one of the things you do need (especially when hitting these types of problems). Without it, you are stuck with how the system was built before which may not include everything you need or may have more than you want on it as a web server.

As far as /etc/rc2.d/S99dtlogin - check to see if you have /etc/init.d/dtlogin. It may be there and possible to start that way. When this system was in use before you got it, did it have it's own console attached to it? If it was headless, then that may explain S99dtlogin not being there.

Make sure you move your S files back to where they were and then run each one until the system either boots up or hangs. If it hangs, then you know which startup script caused it and can investigate if you need it or not by looking at what it is attempting to do.

Hi.

I need ot install a OS on my SPARCstaton 10. solaris.
But I do not have a CD drive.... Is it possible to make a netinstall from an other computer with CD? the other comoutter is a Mac with OS X. so this is almost a UNIX terminal...

Although I can't find someone running jumpstart from a MAC, there are suggestions that it can be run from non-solaris jumpstart system .

You would have to follow the Jumpstart documentation to attempt to set up your MAC to run it. Since you had problems in your last posting about booting the Sparc 10, this will probably be very difficult. Your best bet would again be to find a cdrom on Ebay or locally that you could install in your Sparc 10.

I will try this next week.
I dont think the unix will be the problem. I´m able to start in singleuser mode.

thanks for the help. I will be back with continues questions for you next week.

/Martin

Combined the threads for continuity's sake, so everyone can see the whole ongoing situation...