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STOP-A to the boot prom

     boot cdrom

expects the CD if SCSI to be ID 6.

If the command 'probe-scsi-all' does not see the cdrom you have  
termination or such issues.



On Feb 28, 2006, at 7:41 AM, Scott Einuis wrote:

> Hi People,
>
> I've been using FreeSBD for years on x386 machines, and just yesterday
> someone gave me a Sun Blade (Ultra-Sparc III) machine with an  
> external SCSI
> CD-ROM.  It has Solaris 8 pre-installed.
>
> My questions are..
>
> Should I keep Solaris 8 or install FreeBSD?
>
> And
>
> Since I tried to install FreeBSD already and failed, how do I get  
> the Sun
> Machine to boot from the CD I created for SPARC boot only?
>
> I tried using the eeprom command and changing the boot device to  
> "cdrom" and
> and I also tried the init 0 thing however when I probe-scsi nothing  
> comes
> up.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
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