Re: boot sun fire v100 from an external USB cd/dvd

From: Chris Lawson (newsgroups_at_spamtrap.com)
Date: 10/31/04

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    Greg Tokarski wrote:
    > I found bunch of posts but really none of them seemed to have said if
    > it's possible, and if so how.
    >
    > I am trying to install a v100 from a DVD rom, but sonce the box comes
    > with cd only and no scsi, I am trying to figure it out.
    > Yes, I know I can install from cd, or boot of the network.. my point
    > is judt somply knowing if I can do it from USB attached CD/DVD.
    > (It's an ide cdrom put into an external usb2/firewire case).
    >
    > Of course I cannot see it in probe-scsi or ide, or any other (sifting
    > usb did not show anythng to probe all usb), however it shows just fine
    > when I boot into the OS (Sol9) (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0 - as opposed to c0 for
    > internals).
    >
    > I tried booting off of /pci@1f,0/usb@a/storage@1:0
    > The way I got this path was playing between devalias and ls...
    >
    > Well.. it is not working.
    >
    That's because OBP can't boot off USB.

    How about opening up your V100 and connecting an IDE DVD up to the IDE
    cable?

    --
    Chris
    

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