Help Sun Blade 1000

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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