Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-07-03 Thread Edd Barrett
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:22:04PM +0200, Huy Nguyen wrote: Hi, why don't you install from the network? put bsd.rd on the root of the solaris file system and do: boot disk bsd.rd -- Best Regards Edd Barrett (Freelance software developer / technical writer / open-source developer)

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-16 Thread Philippe Meunier
Okay, problem solved. Someone (you know who you are) sent me the following by email: I had much fun installing OpenBSD on an Ultra 10, too. What I had to do, after dd'ing the miniroot image on the hard disk was to unplugg the floppy (for whatever reason... but it booted after I did that).

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-12 Thread Philippe Meunier
Huy Nguyen wrote: why don't you install from the network? Yes, that's the last boot method I have to try before giving up completely... I'll give it a try next week once I have a bit more spare time. Bryan Irvine wrote: Grab OpenBSD/4.5/sparc64/cd45.iso and see if you fair better. No luck, I

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-12 Thread Philippe Meunier
Philippe Meunier wrote: Someone wrote to me directly: I don't see the HW entry for a CD in the above dmsg are you sure the internal cables are connected? I don't know why the CD doesn't appear explicitely in the dmesg, I can only assume that that's the way Solaris works (I'm no Solaris

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-12 Thread Nick Holland
Philippe Meunier wrote: Hello, I recently rescued an unused Sun Ultra 5/10 that was going to end up in the trash and I've been trying for several hours now to install OpenBSD on it with no success whatsoever. It's a headless machine with one internal disk, a CD drive, a floppy drive, and

Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-11 Thread Philippe Meunier
Hello, I recently rescued an unused Sun Ultra 5/10 that was going to end up in the trash and I've been trying for several hours now to install OpenBSD on it with no success whatsoever. It's a headless machine with one internal disk, a CD drive, a floppy drive, and what looks like a PCI card with

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-11 Thread Huy Nguyen
Hi, why don't you install from the network? Huy On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 05:58:51AM -0400, Philippe Meunier wrote: Hello, I recently rescued an unused Sun Ultra 5/10 that was going to end up in the trash and I've been trying for several hours now to install OpenBSD on it with no success

Re: Sun Ultra 5/10 installation problems

2009-06-11 Thread Bryan Irvine
Grab OpenBSD/4.5/sparc64/cd45.iso and see if you fair better. -Bryan On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:58 AM, Philippe Meuniermeun...@ccs.neu.edu wrote: Hello, I recently rescued an unused Sun Ultra 5/10 that was going to end up in the trash and I've been trying for several hours now to install