Installation on SUN U10 Continued

[Brett D. Estrade]

boot floppies to install from ftp?

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:28:04 +0000, "Robert Slade"
<bsd at bathnetworks.com> said:
> Hiya,
> 
> I am still having problems with installing 5.3 on a SUN U10. I cannot
> install from the CDs, bit 5.4 and 5.3. I get a short read - file does
> not appear to be executable error. I have tied it with CD's I have burnt
> and ones from a supplier. Following a suggestion, I have also burn the
> iso images onto high grade CDs, this still did not work - same error.
> The U10 does have Solaris 9 installed and this can read the CD and all
> appears to be correct.
> 
> I have tried charging the CDROM on the U10, but it refuses to recognise
> the replacement CDROM as being there. Thishappens with 2 different
> CDROMs not sure why this is. I've tried reset-all but this does not make
> any difference. Any suggestions?
> 
> I can get the boot only iso to boot. However, whilst this allows me into
> the FreeBSD OS on the CD and start sysinstall, I cannot delete the
> Solaris slices, so I cannot setup the disk to install FreeBSD via FTP.
> Is there any way round this? 
> 
> Rob
> 
>   
> 
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