Re: solaris 8 - boot from DVD drive

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 02/27/04

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Date: 27 Feb 2004 22:46:57 GMT

viper@gmx.fr (Vi.) writes:

>I am trying to boot a server (v240) running Solaris 9 using a Solaris
>8 DVD.

Which Solaris 8 DVD?

>I entered:
>ok boot cdrom

>and I get:
>boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix

This is typical for "platform not supported by this OS release".

Casper

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