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From: Doug McIntyre on 18 Jan 2010 14:44
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?
>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?

Back when I managed this class of systems, I got a Pioneer DVD-ROM in
an external SCSI case (Maybe a DVD-305S?). Made my life so much
easier. Of course, you'd need the appropriate cabling as well, but
thats all so legacy, it should be readily available cheaply. You
still may have to play with the blk-size jumper, but I don't remember
any longer for this particular drive. Probably not. Those systems all
listed have external SCSI ports and should be able to boot DVD-ROMs.

The time savings from having to babysit and watch for CD-ROM changes
pays for itself in no time. Our environment wasn't too homogenous
to allow for an easy Jumpstart setup, and its was pretty low-volume
for installs any way.

If these systems are running now and you are looking to upgrade them,
look into LiveUpgrade instead? You can do a lofi mount and do inplace
upgrades off an ISO image.

>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?

Nothing special. Make sure the disk you burn comes out good, try
different media, try burning it at low speed, not max speed.


From: chuckers on 21 Jan 2010 00:32
On Jan 18, 10:32 am, kartikvashishta108 <kartik.u...(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?
>
> 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.

If you have the disk space available, you can load the iso image onto
the machine
you are going to upgrade and mount it with lofiadm. Something along
these
lines:

# ls /export/nfs/s10/u8
sol-10-u8-companion-ga.iso sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso sol-10-u8-ga-
x86-dvd.iso
# lofiadm -a /export/nfs/s10/u8/sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso /dev/lofi/
1
# mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt

We do that all the time when we don't want to go out to the data
centres to stick a new DVD
into the jumpstart machine.
From: kartikvashishta108 on 22 Jan 2010 13:25
On Jan 20, 11:32 pm, chuckers <chucker...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 10:32 am, kartikvashishta108 <kartik.u...(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?
>
> > 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.
>
> If you have the disk space available, you can load the iso image onto
> the machine
> you are going to upgrade and mount it with lofiadm.  Something along
> these
> lines:
>
> # ls /export/nfs/s10/u8
> sol-10-u8-companion-ga.iso  sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso  sol-10-u8-ga-
> x86-dvd.iso
> # lofiadm -a /export/nfs/s10/u8/sol-10-u8-ga-sparc-dvd.iso /dev/lofi/
> 1
> # mount -F hsfs -o ro /dev/lofi/1 /mnt
>
> We do that all the time when we don't want to go out to the data
> centres to stick a new DVD
> into the jumpstart machine.

Can I use an x86 to jumpstart a sparc system. I tried it and failed,
I'd like to be sure it works before trying again. Please advise.
From: John D Groenveld on 22 Jan 2010 14:29
In article <2af32f92-22c4-4287-b32e-8aa737580843(a)h2g2000yqj.googlegroups.com>,
kartikvashishta108 <kartik.unix(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>Can I use an x86 to jumpstart a sparc system. I tried it and failed,

Yes.

>I'd like to be sure it works before trying again. Please advise.

Which set of instructions are you using to build your Jumpstart
server on your Solaris x86 host?

At which step are you failing?

John
groenveld(a)acm.org
From: Richard B. Gilbert on 22 Jan 2010 17:47
kartikvashishta108 wrote:
> On Jan 20, 11:32 pm, chuckers <chucker...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 18, 10:32 am, kartikvashishta108 <kartik.u...(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?

CDs are available only if you burn your own. Sun dropped CDROM as a
distribution medium several years ago. I bought some DVD drives on
E-Bay and installed them.
>>> 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?

In principle, Jumpstart should work. I've never tried!

>>> 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?

Where did you get the bootable DVD? If you burned your own I'm not
surprised that it didn't work. Some CD and DVD drives DO NOT like CDR
or DVDR media! It may be due to insufficient error handling in the Open
Boot PROM.

If you are burning your own CD/DVD media try using lowest available
speed; historically it has helped in many cases.

<snip>
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