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- From: jtwiss@nyx.cs.du.edu (Justin Twiss)
- Subject: Solaris off CD-ROM.
- Message-ID: <1992Sep2.121015.8830@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Keywords: Solaris Sun SparcStation
- Sender: usenet@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (netnews admin account)
- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 12:10:15 GMT
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- iGreetings people,
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- We have just recently purchased a DTKStation 2 running Solaris
- (SunOs 4.1.2). Unfortunatley, one of our 'neophyte' assemblers
- has had a fiddle, and has erased the /etc directory from SUnOs.
- (which basically, makes our $8000 equipment, useless, without ls etc...)
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- However, we do have a 1.44Mb drive in the Station][, but were supplied
- Solaris on CD-ROM. We have obtained a Sony CDU-541 (I think its a 541,
- definitely it is a sony (not nec :-) Been there, done that...))
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- However, if we leeeeeave the HDD plugged into the SCSI bus, we cannot
- access the CD-Rom, and if we remove the HDD, and allow the Station][
- to boot off Prom, and we enter 'b cdrom' we get
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- 'Invalid Magic Number'
- 'Invalid label (something like this... DFefinitely above line though'
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- If _ANYONE_ could give us any ideas regarding reloading SunOs back
- onto the system, I'd be GRATEFUL
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- (obtw: The Sony CD-ROM is SCSI-ID 6, with Parity On.)
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- Our boss is a little annoyed, with having paid $8000+ for equipment
- which we haven't been able to use for its true purpose.
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-
- Justin Twiss
- jtwiss@nyx.cs.du.edu
- Service Engineer
- Nimrod Computer Services
- +61-9-362-4844
- ~.
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