Re: booting off cdrom
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 07:57:12PM -0700, B Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am new to the list to please hang with me here....
>
> Someone recently gave me a sparc 5 and there is no root password so I would
> like to just get rid of solaris alltogether. I have an external cdrom but no
> floppy so I made a cpl cd's from the debian sparc iso's. Now all i need to
> figure out is how to boot off the cdrom... If anyone would be willing to
> point me to a doc or help me out I would greatly appreciate it.
When the system boots, hit the STOP and A keys to get to an "ok" prompt.
Once there type "boot cdrom". This assumes that your cdrom is SCSI ID 6.
The Debian install docs have an explanation of this, along with links to
extensive openboot docs.
Ben
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