- Insert Solaris installation CD in the CD drive.
- Turn on the machine
- it will try to start to solaris installation, but you can abort that
by hitting ctrl+c.
- You should now be at the # prompt logged in as root. This means
you can change the root password, and then look around what's on it, etc.
- My suspicion is that you may be trying to install the entire distribution
rather than End User or Developer distribution. First try installing
bare minimum, but allocate a lot of swap like 2.5 to 3 times the size of
your RAM.
Good luck.
===== > Rob
Jon McCoy wrote:
I was given some old RDI PowerLite laptops to use -- unknown accounts/passwords. I tried to reinstall 2.5.1 desktop from a scsi cdrom drive, but during the install it panics, due to 'panic: vfs_mountroot: cannot mount root' error.
Anyone more clueful want to lend some guesses? Each laptop performs exactly the same way, so I don't think it's a specific hardware fault.
ObCisco: http://joe.lindsay.net/bgp.html for tasty BGP bits.
-jon-
You need two things to make it work:
WD-40 to make it go
Duct Tape to make it stop.
