Re: CD has no executable? Sparc 10; 5 to 9 upgrade

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/16/03 

From: "Dave Uhring" <daveuhring@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2003 16:24:49 -0500

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 14:04:41 -0700, Jonathan Driller wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to upgrade a Sparcstation 10 to a newer OS. I have the 7
> CDs and the 9. Both sets have been used before on other machines and
> are fine. I could navigate to the files on the CDs (before I wiped the
> nvram clean - oops. Stop -n). However, when I try to install using the
> suninstall or whatever I get this when I do boot cdrom:
> Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000,/esp@f,800000/sd@6,0:d
> file and args:

ok boot disk6:a

You are trying to boot the CD from partition #3.

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