Re: How to remove DVD drive from Sun Fire V240?

Not a answer to your question but maybe a answer to your problem.

Why don't you setup one Sparc as boot server and do a net boot, much nicer.

Also experience tells that things that are untouched works better that
those systems that are fiddled with in mechanical way!

So just copy the install CD's to a Sparc server of anysize aslong at it
has ~3GB of diskspace to spare and then you can install all 4 at the
same time!

surf to http://www.bigadmin.com and search for "cd-free".


Michael,

FYI, I had started trying to setup a Solaris install server this
afternoon (and saw your post after I got home), and got it working. It
(net boot) is really cool!

I also was able to pull the DVD drive. As Jason suggested in his post,
I pushed down on both tabs, and pulled with a little more effort this
time, and the drive popped right out.


Hi,

For the record, here's a link to the basic procedure that I followed to
get the network boot/installation working:

http://www.sunhelpdesk.com/node/26

The procedure was pretty accurate, except in my case, I have a Solaris 9
DVD (as opposed to a set of Solaris 9 CDs), so I just needed to do the
setup_install_server, and did not need the add_to_install_server.

Also, in my case, I have a 2nd drive on the install server, which I have
configured as "/disk1", so I put the Solaris image files on
"/disk1/Solaris9".

The only other thing that I had to figure out was how to get the
ethernet/MAC address of the to-be-installed servers. I ended up doing a
"banner" in OBP at the "ok" prompt, which showed the MAC address and
used that for each of the V240s.

As mentioned above, this all worked quite nicely.

In fact, since the other machines I have on this test network are Sun
Blade 150s and SF280Rs, they are all in the same Platform Group (sun4u),
so I can do all of my future installations off of that install server
from now on!!

One question though:

Most of these machines (the V240s and the 280Rs) are headless, so I have
to tip into them to do the "boot net". Once I get past all of the
installation questions, etc., and while the installation is still in
progress, can I unplug the serial cable and move it to another machine?

I'm wondering if doing that will cause the in-progress installation to
abort because the serial connection is gone?

Thanks again,
Jim
.

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