Dear Users

Been a long time :-)

In my department at work; we "inherited" a SunBlade100 workstation. Our old manager occasionally used it for testing but promptly lost all the solaris cd's and didn't wipe it before he left.

Now its basically locked down.

Read that support for installing linux on SPARC systems is slowly dwindling or becoming "enterprise-level" but was able to download an Ubuntu SPARC distro.

Anyone know how to boot from a CD on this kind of machine? Am using a regular PC usb keyboard (no sun keyb available) and regular USB pc mouse.

I am sure I can figure out the installation on my own; but just getting this thing to boot from CD is confusing. The CD drive was replaced (by him) with some sort of newer DVD burner.

Lost.

Thanks

i apologize for wasting everyone's time..i'll lay off the coffee :-)

Moved: This thread is more suitable in <General> and has been moved accordingly to help your thread/question get the exposure it deserves.

Pause/Break A should get you to the console; but you'll probably
still need a password. Once you're on the LOM (prompt says ok)
go
boot cdrom


Cheers,
Tink

When you find the solution to your own problem, it's good if you reply to your own thread with the actual answer, so more peoples facing the same problem can also fix theirs. If I remember correctly, when I power on my Sparc I press stop+A on my keyboard, then on the command line I enter "boot cdrom".

The solution that was posted right after I claimed to have figured it out was the correct answer. However, I specifically had said that I wasn't using a sun keyboard to remind people that "STOP-A" wasn't available.

Instead, pressing the POWER button twice (after the boot-beep) very quickly was what made a "boot cdrom" possible.

Cool. Thanks for the explanation JulienPDX!. I've totally missed that part where you said that you were not using a Sun Keyboard. I should not really answer to questions as soon as I wake up ^-^;

Cheers!