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From: kartikvashishta108 on 17 Jan 2010 20:32
I have some Ultra 60's, E250/450/420 systems. The 10/09 release of
Solaris 10 is NOT available in CD format - I'll be glad to be proved
wrong. I do not have DVD drives for these systems. Are CD's available?
How do I install the latest Solaris 10 release - any way other than
jumpstart? And can I use an jumpstart server which itself runs on an
earlier release to install the latest release? Can I use an x86 server
to jumpstart a sparc machine?

I do have a E420R which has a dvd drive but I could not get it to boot
off of a bootable dvd.....any ideas on what needs to be done?

So I have 5 different questions in this post - hope to get a reply.

From: Richard B. Gilbert on 17 Jan 2010 22:01
kartikvashishta108 wrote:
> I have some Ultra 60's, E250/450/420 systems. The 10/09 release of
> Solaris 10 is NOT available in CD format - I'll be glad to be proved
> wrong. I do not have DVD drives for these systems. Are CD's available?
> How do I install the latest Solaris 10 release - any way other than
> jumpstart? And can I use an jumpstart server which itself runs on an
> earlier release to install the latest release? Can I use an x86 server
> to jumpstart a sparc machine?

Solaris is now distributed only on DVDs. CD images are available for
download or were the last time I looked. If you have a CDRW drive you
can burn your own. For best results burn at the lowest available speed.

If you can get a DVD drive for your system, It's well worth it!
Installing from a DVD requires a minimum of manual intervention; you
have to supply the basic configuration information: root password, how
you want the disk partitioned, node name, IP address, subnet mask. . . .
Go to lunch. When you get back the installation should be done or
nearly done! Installing from CDs is slower, there are something like
five CD's and it wants a new one every fifteen minutes.

>
> I do have a E420R which has a dvd drive but I could not get it to boot
> off of a bootable dvd.....any ideas on what needs to be done?

Was that bootable DVD a DVD-R or DVD-RW? These are not always reliable.
The common wisdom is to burn them at the lowest available speed. If
that doesn't work, buy a DVD from Sun. The cost is nominal and you may
get it free depending on the policy of the week! ;-)

If you don't have a local DVD drive, you can Jumpstart from a machine
that does have a local drive.
From: HankVC on 18 Jan 2010 01:42
In article <0a3e760b-7e68-40dc-8992-13f8a2c9fd83(a)k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
kartikvashishta108 <kartik.unix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>I have some Ultra 60's, E250/450/420 systems. The 10/09 release of
>Solaris 10 is NOT available in CD format - I'll be glad to be proved
>wrong. I do not have DVD drives for these systems. Are CD's available?
>How do I install the latest Solaris 10 release - any way other than
>jumpstart? And can I use an jumpstart server which itself runs on an
>earlier release to install the latest release? Can I use an x86 server
>to jumpstart a sparc machine?
>
Jumpstart is your friend. And yes, you can use a Solaris x86 server
to install Sparc Solaris.

You can (I think) still download CD images from Sun. But my U2's and
U60's got upgrade installs from an Ultra 20 M2 server. Downloaded the
DVD iso image, used lofiadm, ran setup_install_server, added my boxes
to the install pool, and away we went.

>I do have a E420R which has a dvd drive but I could not get it to boot
>off of a bootable dvd.....any ideas on what needs to be done?
>
Not surprising, if you are using locally-generated media. Just use
Jumpstart and avoid the whole problem.

Hank

From: Michael Laajanen on 19 Jan 2010 20:18
Hi,

kartikvashishta108 wrote:
> I have some Ultra 60's, E250/450/420 systems. The 10/09 release of
> Solaris 10 is NOT available in CD format - I'll be glad to be proved
> wrong. I do not have DVD drives for these systems. Are CD's available?
> How do I install the latest Solaris 10 release - any way other than
> jumpstart? And can I use an jumpstart server which itself runs on an
> earlier release to install the latest release? Can I use an x86 server
> to jumpstart a sparc machine?
>
> I do have a E420R which has a dvd drive but I could not get it to boot
> off of a bootable dvd.....any ideas on what needs to be done?
>
> So I have 5 different questions in this post - hope to get a reply.
>
Jumpstart is very, just covered in comp.sys.sun.hardware look for
Subject "DVD drive for Blade 1000?"

Date should be 18/12/09

/michael
From: Andrew Gabriel on 20 Jan 2010 20:18
In article <0a3e760b-7e68-40dc-8992-13f8a2c9fd83(a)k17g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
kartikvashishta108 <kartik.unix(a)gmail.com> writes:
> I have some Ultra 60's, E250/450/420 systems. The 10/09 release of
> Solaris 10 is NOT available in CD format - I'll be glad to be proved
> wrong. I do not have DVD drives for these systems. Are CD's available?

CD images are no longer produced. The effort to produce and test them
was very high, and the number of CD downloads had dropped to pretty much
nothing.

> How do I install the latest Solaris 10 release - any way other than
> jumpstart? And can I use an jumpstart server which itself runs on an
> earlier release to install the latest release? Can I use an x86 server
> to jumpstart a sparc machine?

Yes.

--
Andrew Gabriel
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