Re: Trouble installing of Solaris 10 in new UltraSparc machine

On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:11:33 -0700, jmsanchezdiaz@xxxxxxxxx
<jmsanchezdiaz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,

Im trying to install a Solaris 10 OS in a Sun Fire v240 machine.


First I introduced a clear SCSI HDD and the Installation DVD in the
DVD PCI device. Whe I did 'boot' in the OPROM prompt it seemed 'Bad
magic nuber in disk label. Cant open disk label package.
Evaluating: .
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You need to do a 'boot cdrom' to boot off the cdrom. You are trying
to boot off the new (empty) disk.

Cheers, Liam
.

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