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Old 12-07-2006
Installing Solaris 9 on Sunfire V240
Hey guys,

I had a Sunfire V240 with Solaris 10 preinstalled but replaced the original 2 -73g harddrives with 2 146g drives now I'm trying to install Solaris 9 which I want to use not 10.

Now I keep getting this error:

Rebooting with command: boot
Boot device: disk0:a File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{1} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args:
boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix
Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]:

I saw another post on this forum that said you need to install at least Solaris 8 or something. But, I'm using 9 why am I still getting this error? I just used these CD's on a old test server and it installed fine so I doubt it is a bad cd rom.

Any help would be appreciated!
Last edited by kingdbag; 12-07-2006 at 07:36 PM..
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Old 12-07-2006
What version of Solaris 9 are you using?
On V2** servers, you need at least Solaris 9 4/03 (i.e., Solaris 9 released on April 2003).
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Old 12-08-2006
Yep, you are correct....damnit...Solaris 9 is Solaris 9!!!! Whats with this version nonsense! Someone around here had 4/03 laying around...

If there is no date on the CD or DVD is there a command you can run or a file someplace on the disk that tells you what version it is?
 
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