Re: Make Boot Floppy Disk For Solaris.

[Juan Pablo Sales ( Juanaurinegro )]

Hoang Duy Hien wrote:

> Dear Benefactors!
> Thank you for your help.
> Unfortunately, I haven't got any CD-ROM installation.
> Can I boot from floppy disk?
> If so, please tell me how to make it and where I can download from, I tried to
> make Floppy with muLinux but my floppy disk can't be formatted with 1.7M.
> My computer is an x86, When booting, there's appearance:
> "SunOS Secondary Boot version 2.12.
>     <<< Currents Boot Parameters >>>
> Boot path: /pci@0,0/pci0004,8178ob/cmdk@0,0:a
> Boot args:
> Type b {file-name] [boot-flags] <ENTER>       to boot with options.
> or   i <ENTER>      to enter boot interpreter.
> or   <ENTER>        to boot with defaults.
>
> Select (b)oot or (i)nterpreter:
>
> .........."
>
> On my screen. (is it silo ?) After that, it automatically logged into CDE
> (Common Desktop
> Environment). I couldn't log in with any account's name.
> Please, explain me the meaning of these parameters.
> Then I wonder how to boot in single user mode.
>
> Thanks again very much for your enthusiasm.
> Hopefully get your news as soon as possible.
>
> HienHD

How did you install Solaris then?
I don�t know in a x86, but in a Sparc machine you can�t boot form diskette.
Do you have another Solaris machine near by? If so you can try to connect the hard
disk in another machine and mount it, then copy the /etc/shadow to it.



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