Have you tried the sun.com site or a solaris related site? They may be
better able to help you I am sure there are many people there who've gone
through the same problem.
On Fri, 11 Aug 2000, Juan Pablo Sales (
Juanaurinegro ) wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2000 08:18:44 -0300
> From: "Juan Pablo Sales ( Juanaurinegro )" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Hoang Duy Hien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Make Boot Floppy Disk For Solaris.
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> --
> Juan Sales
>
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>
>
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