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Forgive me if I'm missing something you've already tried, but you should be
able to stick the CD in the CDROM drive and type "boot cdrom" at the "Ok"
prompt.
jd
At 01:25 PM 3/1/00 EST, you wrote:
>Hey Jim,
>
>Never installed Solaris before, but here is a shot in the dark (you may have
>already tried this)....
>
>Try mounting the CD on your Linux box and searching for boot.img or *.img by
>using the following command:
>
>find [mount-point] -name '*.img' -print
>
>If you are lucky, Sun creates boot and rescue images just like Linux does.
>If not, I have no idea what to do. I'm assuming that you're lucky, so you
>position yourself in the directory you found boot.img and you type the
>following command:
>
>dd if=boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
>
>This should create your boot disk. Hmmm.....documentation, that is a
>different story completely. Maybe someone else knows where to find that....
>
>Luis
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Jim Sulfare"<jsulfare@harte-hanks.com>
>Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
>To: <plug@lists.nothinbut.net>
>Subject: [PLUG] Solaris 7 BD
>Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:04:38 -0600
>
>I was on our Job site this weekend and visited
>
>www.arsdigita.com
>
>Like always this group has provided me with some really great info and
>knowledge
>"God I feel smarter"!!! thanks to all for posting the job link..
>
>Mark from arsdigita.com and I had an e-mail chat and I had the opportunity
>to
>review their toolkit.. Great kit, take a look..
>
>I was able to get Solaris 7 (Intel CD) but I need a bootdisk and some
>install
>instructions or manuals can anybody help me? I never installed Solaris
>only
>SCO, Linux so all pointers welcome..
>
>-jimS
>
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