Installing Solaris 10 11/06 from an external USB CD-ROM drive

Hello. I recently purchased a new SunFire V245 SPARC server and would like to re-install Solairs 10 on it. However, the internal DVD-ROM is on back order from the vendor and will not arrive for a few days. I have an exteranl USB CD-ROM drive and the server sees it and the media when I access it from the Java desktop. However, I cannot boot from this device or see it in OpenBoot using any of the probe command. I've searched several forums and have seen that Solaris 10 can be installed from an external USB device on the x86/x64 platform. But I cannot find any information or steps on how to implement this procedure on the SPARC platform. Is this functionality possible? Or do I have to update my OpenBoot version? Please advise if possible. Thanks.

Hello Alex,
no, you can't use USB devices on SPARC as boot device.
The OBP (even updated ones) contains only support for the USB keyboard, but none for USB mass storage (which requires a device driver). The integrated USB ports are for slow devices like keyboard and mouse.
Using an external SCSI DVD-ROM works. Another choice is an installation via network.
Michael

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