Hello. The following question is for computer savy people. I am starting an education in computer support and have been able to obtain a Sun Microsystems Ultra 5 workstation. I am having a bear of a time trying to change its boot permissions so that I can use it as a UNIX / LINUX PC. I would like to do this for my career as I am mainly familiar with Windows based operating systems and issues at this point. My question is:
Where is the best place to go to get help in learning how to get this system to boot to the OS so that I may play around with UNIX and install LINUX at some point?
2007-01-15 07:47:31 · 5 answers · asked by aquavita@sbcglobal.net 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
(Here is what I get when I boot.) SUN Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI (Ultra SPARC-11 333mhz), Keyboard present OpenBoot 3.15, 256 memory installed, Serial #********. Ethernet Address 8:0:26: a4:z2:1F Host ID....
Boot Device: disk File and Args
Sun OS Release 5.9 Version Generic ID 112233-48 64bit
Copyright 1992-2003 Sun Microsystems, inc. All rights reserved. Use is subject to terms.
Configuring IPv4 Interface hme0.
Configuring IPv6 Interface hme0.
Hostname lucky
The / file system (/dev/rdsk/...........) is being checked. [the periods are place holders as I cant read the picture I took when it was going on.]
SUNF,hme0 no response from the Eithernet network & link down -- Cable Problem?
It keeps repeating. I think it has something to do with it looking for booth instructions off the network it was on. I also feel one of the boot proms need reseting. It never gets to root / UNIX prompt. I can STOP -A and get to OpenBoot prompt and SETENV / PRINTENV and run baisc diag but no more.
2007-01-15 08:37:30 · update #1
What is the exact problem you are having ... boot permissions mean nothing? Does the hardware boot? Can you log in as root? Do you have an account on the system?
It thinks you are trying to boot from the net.
try "boot disk" adn read up on os install.
2007-01-15 08:22:33 · answer #1 · answered by themountainviewguy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am not quite sure of what you are saying when you are talking about the boot permissions. You can change the boot settings from the boot prompt or manually select a device to boot from, but it has nothing to do with permissions.
You can find information from Sun on the OpenBoot:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-3241
2007-01-15 16:05:13 · answer #2 · answered by Ghost 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Download a distro of Linux for the SUN box, put the CD in and boot up the box, and hit Stop-A, type boot cdrom at the prompt.
Follow the install CD from there.
2007-01-15 16:14:16 · answer #3 · answered by Matt F 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Sun boxes run Sun OS Solaris. You can download it free from sun.com/download. This box does not run Linux. It may run Sun's java desktop which is a form of Suse Linux But I am not 100% sure.
HMMMM, looking at the link from Thunder I stand corrected.
2007-01-15 15:55:54 · answer #4 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Ultra 5 was meant to run Solaris and not Linux.
You can check out this site to attempt to get Linux installed:
http://linuxgazette.net/issue72/forsberg.html
2007-01-15 15:53:52 · answer #5 · answered by thunder2sys 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋