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Re: How do we boot our new SS10?

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From: bob leck
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 13:19
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In article <433@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.113647@siisun.epfl.ch> brossard@sic.epfl.ch writes:
><In article <BETSYS.93Jan7152657@ra.cs.umb.edu>, betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) writes:
><|> While I'm waiting for our sun salesperson, I thought I'd ask the
><|> world:
><|> 
><|> We have Sun 3's and Sun 4's running 4.1.1. We have 4.1.2 on CD-rom,
><|> uninstalled. We just received a Sparcstation 10/20 which supposedly
><|> has 4.1.3 on the hard disk. 
><|>   It won't boot. Running jumpstart makes it look for host yp maps and
><|> I think other 4.1.3 systems, then ask for the CD-ROM which we do not
><|> own. The docs cover Jumpstart and refer to Solaris manuals which we do
><|> not own.
><
><    SS10 now come setup to install Solaris 2.1 when they are first
><turned on.  They do NOT have 4.1.3 pre-installed anymore!
>
>Not true, the SS10 Model 20 booted with 4.1.3 and we just got it late last
>week and turned it on today (for the first time).

This is true. I have received many SS10's the past few weeks. They all came pre-loaded for Solaris 2.1. I had to re-format the disk and load 4.1.3.


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From: rrleck@custer.uucp (bob leck)
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Subject: Re: How do we boot our new SS10?
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Date: 12 Jan 93 13:19:55 GMT
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