If you friendly with your Sun Field Engineer, just get him to order you a replacement DVD-Rom.
There generally a consumable part so Sun wont want the faulty one back. =] Regards, Lupco Trpeski > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:31:41 +1100 > From: andre at purplecow.org > To: Murray.Blakeman at synergy.com.au > CC: ug-msosug at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [ug-msosug] Installing Solaris 10 u8 > > > Boot from an older boot CD and install from a flash archive? Might not > play well with ZFS though. Otherwise, USB DVD drive *or* slap NIC with PXE > in there. > > You can initiate JS from a CD, but not necessarily worth the effort for a > one-off. > > > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Murray Blakeman wrote: > > > I have a server with CDROM only and no PXE boot (yes it's old). > > > > Solaris 10 u8 is only available on DVD :( > > > > I have another server with a functional Jumpstart Environment with Update 8 > > setup for deployment. > > > > I've read that you can initiate a Jumpstart build from Grub (CDROM/Floppy). > > > > Any assistance on how I can get u8 on this server? > > > > The server has an Intel e1000g (MT Server Adapter). > > > > Thanks :) > > > > p.s. I want to use ZFS boot (mirror) of course > > > > -- > Andre van Eyssen. > mail: andre at purplecow.org jabber: andre at interact.purplecow.org > purplecow.org: UNIX for the masses http://www2.purplecow.org > purplecow.org: PCOWpix http://pix.purplecow.org > > _______________________________________________ > ug-msosug mailing list > ug-msosug at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ug-msosug _________________________________________________________________ If it exists, you'll find it on SEEK. Australia's #1 job site http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157639755/direct/01/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ug-msosug/attachments/20100301/c85c70bf/attachment.html>
