help installing 5.3 on a ultra 5

[Sten Spans]

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005, squid wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to get 5.3 to install on a ultra 5 when I use disc1.iso I 
> get a kernel/unix not found error when I do a boot cdrom in the prom. I 
> did some searching and saw a suggestion of using boot cdrom 
> /boot/kernel/kernel in prom and when I did that
> it comes back and says the file wasn't found. I tried using the 
> bootonly.iso and am having the same issues. I'm running out of ideas and 
> would appriciate any help on getting the install going.

boot-file:
File  for booting  Solaris , default is empty string .This variable 
contains the default boot arguments that are used when OpenBoot is not in 
diagnostic mode.

set-defaults
Reset variable values to the factory defaults.

http://www.adminschoice.com/docs/open_boot.htm


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Sten Spans

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