On 05-Oct-99 Daniel E. Jackson wrote:
>>
>> Don't know but I can relate my own experience.
>>
>> I have two "Sun Bootable" CDROM drives that boot and install Solaris just
>> fine,
>> but neither will work for a Linux install. The only drive I have which will
>> install Linux is an old Pinnacle CD-R drive, and at that it sometimes takes
>> several tries due to file errors.
>>
>> Interestingly the CD-R drive will *not* install Solaris.
>
> A lot of PC cdroms and CD-R drives are built with 1024 blocksize, Sun
> bootable (if memory serves) CD's need to be 512. I have seen this
> problem over and over. On older machines, particularly IPC and below
> (but this may affect LX also, can't remember) you can't use the more
> modern Sun external CD's at all to boot from. For older machines, if
> you have the hardware/disk space, you may want to do an FTP or NFS
> installation. I was not able to get SparcLinux CD to boot from the
> internal CD on a sparc-20, so I got the updated kernel image disks and
> made boot floppies and it all worked just fine. Same-same on sparc1+,
> which unfortunately succumbed to a lightning strike after that!
I know about the block size issue, but as I said these drives install Solaris
quite well and they are in fact "Sun Bootable".
I have a 32-X "Sun Bootable" that works with a Classic (Sun-4M arch) just fine.
Are you saying it won't boot with an older machine like an SS-2 (Sun-4c)?
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