Hi folks!
I'm a newbie - I just subscribed. ;-)
I'm having some difficulty with a SPARCstation LX I rescued from the
dumpster at work. It's got SunOS 4.1.3_UI installed on it, but it expects
to find a server on a network. I can boot to the "#" prompt with "boot -s"
but with autoboot the machine tries to find a server called "scanlab" on the
TPE. It reports le0: No Carrier... and retries ad infinity.
But what I really want to do is just install a fresh copy of Solaris 2.4.
I've got a CD marked "Solaris 2.4 Hardware: 11/94" but I don't know if it is
really the solaris install cd.
Also, when i boot from the cdrom ("boot cdrom"), the system starts loading
SunOS 5.4. But I get a warning immediately after the copyright appears.
"Data transfer overrun" and it prints out "current esp states:" and lists
several esp states.... (whatever those are)...
The LX reboots from the default boot directory.
I'm sorry that I'm such a newbie. This is my very first Sun machine and I'm
very excited about getting it up and running, but I know nthing about it :-(
I'm open to any suggestions that you folks might give me...
Here's my setup:
Sun SPARCstation LX, 48MB RAM, 450MB internal hd, external 411 hd (ID 1) -
not sure of the capacity but I think it's ~500MB, and a Matsushita (LaCie
rebranded) CD-R at ID 6.
Thanks for being patient with me!
Peace,
Drew
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Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 21:24:42 BST