[CLUE-Tech] Linux on Sparc: Need Media

[Jed S. Baer]

On Sun, 6 Jun 2004 21:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
Brandon N <bneill at yahoo.com> wrote:

> if it's a Sun CD drive, you can boot from it, just type "boot cdrom"
> from the ok prompt.  If it's not a Sun drive, let me know, I have one. 
> If you need any assistance with the hardware, let me know, I have a
> fair bit of experience with it.

The CD appears to be Sun. The shoebox is slightly damaged (cosmetic), so
whatever logo was on the LED panel is gone. But the appearance looks like
some other Sun external peripheral stuff I've seen.

Most useful at this point would be if there's a command from the boot
prompt I can use to see if the CD is recognized -- a "list hardware" sort
of thing.

Yeah, I know there's an old CLUE-Tech thread on this that I need to track
down -- just haven't done it yet.

>  Never installed linux on one though, I
> figured why bother, since Solaris works perfectly fine.

Because Linux is free, and Solaris isn't?

jed
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