"Brian E.W. Wood" wrote:
>
> 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)?
Don't know, I tried the stock Sun External CD (wide single ended, I
believe 12x) on a sparc5, sparc1+, sparc10, and LX. Worked on 10, not
the others. Not sure why, memory has timed out.
>
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