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Article #3581Re: Help: Reinstall OS -> Sparcbook2
From: Frank-Christian Kruegel
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:00
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On Mon, 8 Dec 1997 13:28:09 -0500, John Jeffy Lin <jjl@columbia.edu> wrote: > i've just recently bought a sparcbook 2 and I would like to load >solaris 1.0.1 from the tadpole cdrom. However, the directions to do so in >the "Backup and Restore" section of the manual are incoherent at best and >just plain wrong at worst. What I've been trying to do is: >-interrupt boot to go into firmware monitor >-chose the restore option >-chose the cdrom >-guess at the incantation required to specify the 'restore image' on the >cdrom. ex. "6 0 /kernel/vmunix" "6 2 minifs" > >Has anyone actually been able to reinstall sunos on their sparcbook? Is he tadpole sunos customized for that machine? Otherwise, I'd try a simple 'boot cdrom' from the monitor. Frank-Christian Kr๏ฟฝgel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fchk@i-online.ohz.north.de - 2:2426/3060.1 http://www.ohz.north.de/
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: f4671,953e65d72e129dfc X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: fb1d2,953e65d72e129dfc X-Google-Attributes: gidfb1d2,public From: fchk@i-online.ohz.north.de (Frank-Christian Kruegel) Subject: Re: Help: Reinstall OS -> Sparcbook2 Date: 1997/12/11 Message-ID: <3490b8c6.142320486@news.ohz.north.de> X-Deja-AN: 297193902 References: <Pine.SUN.3.95L.971208132509.26240C-100000@mhoro.cc.columbia.edu> Organization: IstDa Online Reply-To: fchk@i-online.ohz.north.de Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,biz.tadpole.sparcbook