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Old 01-22-2010
Booting SPARC 5 Machine 's CD-ROM

Hi,

I have inherited a Ultra 5 SPARC machine that I need to boot from its CD-ROM. WHen I turn on the machine it just boots to its hard drive. How do I get it to boot from the CD-ROM.
I am a Solaris newbie....
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Old 01-30-2010
Either run:
Code:
# init 0

as the root user from within Solaris or press the STOP + A keys which will take you to the monitor prompt (hopefully ok>) then type:
Code:
boot cdrom

See: Man Page for boot (OpenSolaris Section 1m) - The UNIX and Linux Forums
 
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