[tech] New Clubroom Machine: Sidderrog

[Daniel J. Axtens]

> When you say OpenSolaris, do you mean Solaris Express Community Edition?
> IOW, was it one of the CDs floating around the machine room? Before Sun
> launched OpenSolaris 2008.05, OpenSolaris was what people commonly called
> SXCE.
>

It was the auto net install cd referred to below.

> OpenSolaris 2009.06 can only be installed on SPARC via the automatic
> network installer which itself only runs on OS 2009.06:
> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/docs/content/2009.06/AIinstall/initial.html

Aah. I was wrong about how it worked - I thought it booted from the CD
then installed from the network, and I guess none of us read the notes
very carefully. That would explain it - thanks.

> OpenSolaris 2009.06 does need OpenBoot PROM 4.17 for WANboot support.
> http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/advsearch.do?collection=PATCH&type=collections&queryKey5=119235&toDocument=yes
> is the latest version (4.17.1) available for the SunBlade 150. You should
> be able to extract it to /boot and then run
> "boot disk /flash-update-Blade100-Blade150-latest" or possibly
> "boot disk:a /flash-update-Blade100-Blade150-latest"
>

Noted - I might try OS on another Blade 150 that way.
[DJA]