Ultra2 - boot from floppy

I have a Sun Ultra 2 with no cdrom (but with a floppy drive).
How can I boot the Ultra 2 from the floppy and install Solaris 10 on it?

There is no floppy boot support for any version of SPARC Solaris, not even really old versions.
You can set up a network boot server on another machine, or you can find a scsi CD or DVD drive temporarily.
Or if you had another similar machine, maybe you could pull the Ultra 2's boot drive, copy an image to it in the other machine, then put it back in this system and try to boot it.
Darren

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nice Kirurgs
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dell inspiron 2500 1 ghz pentium III
method 1) used puppy after booting off wakepup2 floppy ....very handy that wakepup flopppy though be advised there's several versions of wakpup2 and try the second boot option on the aug or sept 2008 version it WILL find your USB device even if like me I had an old 128 meg one. also, Crash, a guy at the puppy forums has a 3 floppy set that's specific to whatever puppy version you're running... try that as a last resort
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Message was edited by: FreeFlyFreak
EDIT:
http://laptopforums.toshiba.com/t5/General-Technology/cannot-boot-from-cd-dvd-drive/td-p/8863
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Message was edited by: FreeFlyFreak

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