Installing solaris on netra T1 (no cd rom)

Hi all,
Sorry for my poor English ;-))
I have a "beautiful" Sun Netra T1 (without cd rom drive connected to it...)and i want to full reinstall it with the new sun solaris 9....
How can i do it ?
nb : i have other sun 5.6 or 5.7 solaris ultra 10 in the network...with cdrom....but i'm really a neebie in unix systems....
HELP !!!!!! thank you

Try procedure outlined in InfoDoc 27794 - Process 1 - Booting remote cdrom into an interactive install. Although it uses Solaris 8 in the examples it should work for Solaris 9 as well.
http://sunsolve.Sun.COM/pub-cgi/retrieve.pl?doc=finfodoc%2F27794&zone_32=27794

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Attempting to install Solaris 10 on Netra t1 via external DVD-Rom

Hello Experts,
I am trying to install Solaris 10 on my Netra t1 via external DVD. I connected the DVD-ROM to the scsi port on the back. System recognized the DVD but does not allow me to boot from it. I have done many things without any success. Following are the details:
System info:
Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.25 ME, 1024 MB memory installed,
Ran the scsi test and it doesn't report any issues:
ok test scsi
Probe-scsi-all shows the drive:
ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318404LSUN18G 4207
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST318404LSUN18G 4207
Target 4
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M14011009
devalias also shows as cdrom1:
ok devalias
cdrom1 /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk@6,0:f
cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/cdrom@2:f
ide-disk /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/disk@0:f
ide-cdrom /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/cdrom@2:f
ide /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e
I created devalias manually also with no help. Following is what I get when I try to boot from it:
ok boot cdrom1
Resetting ...
Netra t1 (UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.10.25 ME, 1024 MB memory installed,
Executing last command: boot cdrom1
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk@6,0:f File and args:
Drive not ready
Evaluating: boot cdrom1
Can't open boot device
I verified the DVD and it works just fine. I install the OS with the same DVD on Netra-440 system without any issues.
Please tell me what am I missing here or doing wrong. Please help.

Sun-worshiper,
Thank you so much for pointing that out. I was loosing it.
Just in case someone else runs into this type of issue:
When you run probe-scsi-all please pay attention to the target. In order to boot from the DVD, I executed the following commands from the ok prompt:
ok nvalias dvd /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@2/disk@4,0:f
ok boot dvd

Installing solaris 10 on netra t1 105

im need to sun computer system....i have got to the point of hyperterm lom> and booting the system, but it has no software installed.. im trying to install solaris on a sun netra t1 105 256 mb ram and 19gb hd and NO CDROM im trying to "network install" from a windows 2003 server.. is this possibly or do i have to a sun workstation to install as boot/install server... or could i connect the hard drive to a windows 2003 server and format and install solaris on it using virual pc.... i haveit networked to my wireless router as well a x86 computer...
Edited by: lebaronman on Feb 28, 2008 2:01 AM

I have no really good answer here..
I guess you are using a Netra T1 AC200, right?
Some futher questions;
Are you using an internal CD-Rom?
Have you tried the CD-Rom before so you know it works?
What happens if you try "boot cdrom" without inserting any CD? I think the bootpath to the cd-rom looks a bit strange, and testing that would be the easiest way of verifying if its correct or not. If the path is correct you should get a different error if you attemt to boot from a non-existing CD.
Last question; which Solaris 10 version did you download?
7/M.

Error while installing Solaris 10 using Solaris CD

I'm getting an error while installing Solaris 10 in an Ultra 10 box.
I have Solaris CDs (Total 4) and I have installed Solaris 10 in a Ultra 250 box , I did not get any problem. That means CDs are fine.
But when I try to boot the CD 1 from bootPROM mode by giving the following command
ok boot cdrom
I get the following error :
rebooting with CD command boot cdrom
boot device : /pci@1f, 0/pci@1 , 1/idi@3/cdrom@2 ,0:f file and args
Cant read disk label
Cant open disk label package
evaluating : boot cdrom
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Then the box boots up with Solaris 8 which it has now..
Can anyone please help me to solve this issue ?
Thanks

With the above information , I just wanted to tell you that the CD rom is getting detected as i can view all files in the CD.,,

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I installed Solaris 8 2/04 in a Sun Fire V120 (UltraSPARC-IIe 648MHz), the installation finished but when server restarted it displayed this:
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kbd: Cannot find /usr/lib/ld.so.1
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Requested Block: 142093520 Error Block: 142093520
Vendor: COMPAQ Serial Number: 3KT2R4Y3
Sense Key: Soft Error
ASC: 0x5d (<vendor unique code 0x5d>), ASCQ: 0x10, FRU: 0x10"
i do not know if is a hard drive problem. Please help me because i tried three times the installation but the problem still exists

Since this is a fresh installation, you might consider starting it all over again.
You may have made some initial selections while prompted at the beginning of the install process, that accidentally omitted essential system files.
As for that device path and the disk? It's pointing to an external non-Sun peripheral that's connected to the rear external SCSI port. That drive has some bad sectors. ( I wouldn't trust a new OS on those sectors until you fixed them.)
The errors are not calling out either of the two possible internal drives.
Infodoc 21216 lists a few default system device paths, and ...Sun Fire [TM]v120 / Netra[TM] 120
PCI slot 0               /pci@1f,0/pci@1/<device>@1,*          33mhz-32bit-5V
disk 1                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
disk 2                       /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
External SCSI Port          /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1/<device>
CDROM                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/sd@0,0
Network 1               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@c,1
Network 2               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@5,1

We can't install Solaris 8 - IBM PC SERVER 315

Hello:
We are trying to install Solaris 8 (Intel) (02/02) in an IBM PC Server 315.
Some words about it:
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- Adaptec AHA-2940U/2940UW Ultra SCSI in PCI bus1,Slot 4 (Info from Solaris install) (Target 7)
- Hard Disk IBM SCSI (Target 0)
- CD-Rom SCSI IBM CDRM00203 (Target 6 of SCSI) (info from Solaris install)
We have a big problem.
We can't install Solaris from CD.
After Loading kernel , when it begins Searching /dev and /devices...we see this text in the screen repeated a lot of times:
WARNING: /pci@0,0/pci1011,24@2/pci9004,8178@1(adp0):
timeout: abort device, target=6 lun=0
And before this something like it has some problem and begins a resinc ??
Please Could you help us?
Solaris has been purchased from Sun on 12 March 2002
A lot of Thank's!
P.D: Please, excuse my poor English.
A lot of thank's.

two other severs wouldn't run the cd either? Break it down a little it will be more solvable. We will create two separate problems with this. First we will check the cd disk itself. Put in another system and install solaris. If that works, move to the cdrom drive....move it to the same computer you just installed solaris on...if it works then it is another problem.

Problem with installing solaris 10

hi.
I'm using Intel-based processor for my stand-alone computer running Windows XP Professional with a broadband connection.
As directed by one of the guys here, and also by my own research, I found the documentation for installing Solaris 10 on x86 based computers.
By navigating through the documentations:
'Solaris 10 Release and Installation Collection' >
'Solaris 10 Installation Guide: Basic Installations' >
'2. Installing With the Solaris Installation Program (Tasks)' >
'x86: Performing an Installation or Upgrade With the Solaris Installation Program'
I followed the instructions as stated in the documentations and set BIOS to boot from CD.
It didn't worked. My computer went on to boot from my Windows OS located in my hard disk. (CD is my first boot device in BIOS)
I have 4 CDs now for Solaris 10 installation.
Each of the CD has a ISO file respectively.
Please help!

One or more of the following:
(A) Your motherboard and/or CD-ROM drive do not actually allow booting from CD even though all of the settings seem to be set correctly. I've had this happen to me before. Try a different CD-ROM drive.
(B) Your CDs are written from bad ISO images.
(C) Your CD writing software does not properly create bootable CDs. If you use Windows, Nero is highly recommended.
(D) Your CDs were written too fast. Rewrite the CDs using the slowest speed that your CD writer will allow.

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CAN I INSTALL SOLARIS 10 INTEL PLATFORM ON MY PC

Can anybody guide me whether i can install solaris 10 intel platform on my pc having following configuration
1. Processor = AMD SEMPRON 2500+ 64-BIT.
2. MainBoard = ASUS K8V-MX.
3. RAM-= 512 MB DDR PC3200
4. Display = Onboard VIA/S3G Unichrome Pro IGP.
5. LAN = Onboard VIA RHINE II Fast Ethernet Adapter.
6. Monitor = 17" LG CRT, Model = Studioworks 700S
7. Sony DVD- ROM.
8. Samsung DVD-RW.
9. HDD = 40 GB Samsung 7200 RPM.
If anybody knows let me know at my e-mail [email protected]

I don't think you will have many problems in this platform, but I'm not 100% sure.
What I recommend you is to get the VMWare and try there. VMWare is a software where you can create a virtual machine running under windows. In this virtual machine you could install solaris 10 (and any other OS you want to test in your computer). I have my Solaris 10 running under VMWare with excellent results (Laptop with Intel Celeron processor)... where I have VMWare installed in Windows!

Partitions problems installing solaris 8 2/04 on Sun v240

Hi all,
I'm trying to install Solaris 8 on a v240 sun machine. The machine is new, and I think it comes with Solaris 10 installation files pre-loaded. I don't want them, I need Solaris 8.
I'm starting installation booting from cd to use my Solaris 8 cds. During initial installation steps the system promts following question:
Searching for a location to place the Solaris installation software...
Searching disks for upgradeable Solaris root devices...
The following root devices were found to be upgradeable:
Release Root Device
Solaris 10 c1t0d0s0
Swap slices are usually erased at each reboot, so it is preferable
to place the Solaris installation software on a disk slice labeled swap.
The disk slice, c1t0d0s1, labeled as swap,
is large enough to hold the Solaris installation software.
NOTE: All information on the selected swap slice will be erased.
Can c1t0d0s1 be used for the Solaris installation software [y,n,?,q] y
And I need to choose one to go on. Then, when I reach the step to set disk partioning up it tells me that I have to do it using cylinders. I try it, but the slice that is being used in the first step (see above) to store installation files is named as swap and I cannot edit it.
How can I proceed? I want to edit my partioning during installation process as I always have done when installed Solaris before.
What is goin on? any help?
Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Since this is a fresh installation, you might consider starting it all over again.
You may have made some initial selections while prompted at the beginning of the install process, that accidentally omitted essential system files.
As for that device path and the disk? It's pointing to an external non-Sun peripheral that's connected to the rear external SCSI port. That drive has some bad sectors. ( I wouldn't trust a new OS on those sectors until you fixed them.)
The errors are not calling out either of the two possible internal drives.
Infodoc 21216 lists a few default system device paths, and ...Sun Fire [TM]v120 / Netra[TM] 120
PCI slot 0               /pci@1f,0/pci@1/<device>@1,*          33mhz-32bit-5V
disk 1                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@0,0
disk 2                       /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/scsi@8/sd@1,0
External SCSI Port          /pci@1f,0/pci@1/scsi@8,1/<device>
CDROM                    /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@d/sd@0,0
Network 1               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@c,1
Network 2               /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/<network>@5,1

Could not install solaris 8 on my sparcstation-20

Hi, I tried to install solaris 8 on my sun machine.
It failed, with
the error message, saying that it can't find the
kernel file. Then I
tried to install solaris 6. It succeeded. I could
not figure out why,
anyone can help me?
Following is the output of uname:
Generic 105181-05 sun4m sparc sunnw sparcstation-20

I installed solaris 8 on a sparc20 last nite. Could it be the media you are using? Try installing from the first applications cd, not the install disk.
My install was painfully slow due to the ancient cd-rom, but it did complete successfully.
Good luck,
- Adam

Install Solaris 8 on SPARC system

Hi,
I'm new in Unix/Solaris. I tried to install solaris 8 on a sparc system, I downloaded (SOL-8-1_01-FCS-BIN-SPARC-V1 and V2) and i burned 2 CD as. On the sparc system is already SUNOS 5.6 installed. But each time I tried to boot the system it "hang" after the message:" starting rpc services: rcpbind keyserv nis_cachemgr done." What ever I type after this message has no effect at all. I'm allowed to format the disk (home user). The CD-rom player is attached to the Sparc but can not boot the CD. Is there anyone who can help me.
I downloaden olso the pdf files but they were no use for me at this moment.

Hello,
you will have to go to OK prompt and then boot with CDROM.
1.login as root and then type
#eeprom auto-boot?=false
2.reboot the system. the system will stop at the OK prompt.
3. then type:
OK boot cdrom install
you should see Solaris install program and follow its instruction.
And the error you see seems to be caused by bad network connection

Problem of installing solaris 8

I got the following warning message when I install Solaris 8(Intel x86) on
my PC(Abit KT7 motherboard, AMD Duron 650 CPU, NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64
display adapter) from bootable CD-ROM.
Determing bus types and gathering hardware configuration data...
Warning: Resource Conflict- both devices are added
Non-ACPI device: PNP0C01
Memory: FFFE0000-FFFFFFFF, FEE00000-FEE0FFFF
ACPI device: PNP0C01
Memory: CA800-CBFFF, 1FFF0000-1FFFFFFF, FFFF0000-FFFFFFFF,
9FC00-9FFFF, 40F0000-1FFEFFFF, FEE00000-FEE00FFF
Then I ignore the message, press ENTER key to continue. Everything seems ok, but when it boot the SunOs(even not begin to install), it restart
my computer without any prompts. I try to install it again, but the same
restart happened again .
I think the problem maybe result from the motherboard or display adapter.
Could you tell me how to resolve it?
my email: [email protected] I'm looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks for your time.
Best regards,
Charles Mao

I am having the same problem with an ASUS K7M and Athlon 550, but only after I fixed(!) the conflicting addresses in the Windows device manager. Win95 had also reported the same conflicting addresses before but I fixed it by deleting the PnP device and rebooting - Windows assigned new non-conflicting addresses. Solaris boot was still showing the conflict but now also crashed as you described.

Espontaneous reboot trying to install solaris 8 on Pentium IV

I been having problems trying to install Solaris 8 for x86 platforms (2002 February edition) on an Intel Pentium IV system. This is the system spec:
Pentium IV 1.7 GHz
Intel Board D850 MV
512 RAM BUS (RIMM)
Maxtor 40 Gb two primary partitions
CD-ROM: Asus 52x
Already installed OSes: Windows 2000 Advanced Server. First Partition.
Problem: After I boot the PC with the boot diskette, and the boot process asks me for the Solaris CD 1 it asks for to methods. Jumpstar and Step Confirmation (not sure about the exact choises). Neither of both choises worked. When trying to read the Solaris CD 1 disk, it just reboots.
What should I do?
Thanks in advance for the help.

Before running the b kadb -v command I found some warning and here they are:
Warning: ACPI Tables not in reclaim memory
Then another warning appear abou ACPI:
Determing bus types and gathering hardware configuration data
Warning: Resource Conflict - both devices are added
NON-ACPI device: PNP0C01 Memory 97C0-97FFF .......
ACPI device: PNP0C01
Then... :-( another warning:
Warning: Resource conflict - both devices are added
NON ACPI device: ISY0050 Port 3F0-3F5, 3F7: IRQ 6; DMA: 2
ACPI device: Port 3F0-3F1, 3F2, 3F3, 3F4-3F5, 3F7; IRQ6; DMA: 2
After that.. everything went well, I activated the kadb and this is what I got from it:
/plattform/i86pc/kernel/unix loaded - 0x8b00 bytes read�
Sun OS Release 5.8 Version Generic 32-bit
Copyright ......
panic[CPU0]/thread= FEC17440: BAD TRAP: type=d (generic protection fault)
rp=FEC12994 addr=0
Generic protection fault
pid=0, pc= 0xFE80F346, sp=0xfe808ee4, eflags=0x10093
eip(fe(80F346), eflags(10093), ebo(fec12a08), uesp(fe808ee4)
esp(fec129c4), cr0(80050011), cr2(0), cr3(17e00), cs(158), ds(160), ss(410), es(160), fs(198), gs(1b0)
fec128c8 unix: die+9c (d, fec12994, 0, 0, 3)
fec12980 unix: trap+290()
fec12994 unix: _cmntrap+97 (e0c20160, e0d60160, 3)
fec12a08 unix: wrmsr+d()
fec12add unix: startup+98f()
fec12aec unix: genunix: main+a()
panic: entering debugger ( no dum device, continue to reboot) stopped at int 20+0xb ret
kadb[0]:
Well, what should be the problem?
thanks a lot.
/sergio

Cannot Install Solaris 10 8/07 on HP Laptop

I'm trying to install Solaris on a laptop (HP dv5040us (2.2Ghz AMD Turion, 2GB Ram)), and here's what I've done so far:
Downloaded Solaris 10 (sol-10-u4-ga-x86-dvd.iso) from Sun.com.
Did the checksum and passed.
Burned to DVD and finalized (using Roxio). Did checksum again and passed.
I've ensured that the CD drive is first in the boot sequence.
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have you burn it as image or just put file on the disk?
You need to do it as image to have bootable CD/DVD

Installing solaris on netra T1 (no cd rom)

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