Re: Installing on an Ultra 60

Huge <Huge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

IME, SPARCstations are *very* sensitive to the type of CD drive and
the quality of the CDs you try and boot from. I've had most success
with Sun CDs and the drive that Sun installed in the machine, and
least with home-made CDs and non-OEM CD drives. Also, the older CD
drives don't seem to like home-made CDs much. I too have spent hours
looking at the "The file just loaded does not appear to be executable"
message.

He's using some newer CD drive from HP; I think that the SPARC systems
require a 512 byte block size for the drives, though, at least in
order to be able to boot from them.

Some have a jumper which allows you to set this.

Casper
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