Need help getting an old Sun Blade 100 to run Solaris 10
October 30, 2007 6:18 PM Subscribe
Having some trouble installing Solaris 10 on an old Sun Blade 100. Any help?
I volunteer some time each week at a local computer for schools program, which takes old computers from government and business and puts them in schools, and saw that they had an old Sun Blade 100 around. Given that they're an exclusively Windows shop and it won't run it, I figured I'd install Solaris 10 with some discs I had around. I'm somewhat of an OS aficionado, so I thought this would be a good way to expand my experience with Operating Systems as well as a chance to finally put these discs to work, since I got them for free from Sun. Using the boot cdrom command, I tried to boot from the DVD drive, however, for some reason the OpenBoot firmware won't recognize the disc as a legitimate install disc (I can't remember the exact message, but it was something to that effect). The install media is a DVD, and it originally had a CD drive, but was swapped out for a DVD drive, if it matters. I've been heard that the first release of Project Indiana is coming out tomorrow. Should I use that instead? I've done some googling on this and haven't come up with any answers, so any help would be appreciated.
I volunteer some time each week at a local computer for schools program, which takes old computers from government and business and puts them in schools, and saw that they had an old Sun Blade 100 around. Given that they're an exclusively Windows shop and it won't run it, I figured I'd install Solaris 10 with some discs I had around. I'm somewhat of an OS aficionado, so I thought this would be a good way to expand my experience with Operating Systems as well as a chance to finally put these discs to work, since I got them for free from Sun. Using the boot cdrom command, I tried to boot from the DVD drive, however, for some reason the OpenBoot firmware won't recognize the disc as a legitimate install disc (I can't remember the exact message, but it was something to that effect). The install media is a DVD, and it originally had a CD drive, but was swapped out for a DVD drive, if it matters. I've been heard that the first release of Project Indiana is coming out tomorrow. Should I use that instead? I've done some googling on this and haven't come up with any answers, so any help would be appreciated.
Response by poster: I should have added that it's an IDE drive. Thanks for the tips, I'll give them a try.
posted by northernsoul at 9:24 PM on October 30, 2007
posted by northernsoul at 9:24 PM on October 30, 2007
I'm sure you probably already checked this, but it is a SPARC DVD, and not X86, right?
posted by arruns at 12:37 AM on October 31, 2007
posted by arruns at 12:37 AM on October 31, 2007
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Alternately, you can install from a Solaris 10 CD-ROM set - the ISO images are freely downloadable from Sun at no cost.
self-link warning: I've run SunHELP for ten years now as a hobby. Feel free to throw me an email if neither of the above tips work.
posted by mrbill at 8:14 PM on October 30, 2007 [1 favorite]