Expect to see fewer hard drives.

From: Jeffrey S. Worley <Technoid_at_30below.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2 13:03:04 2003

I didn't have install media either and at the time hadn't played with
the BSD variants that run on this machine. The prom is really
primitive. Architecture is Sun4 not Sun4U or any of the newer ones. One
of our list members shipped me original Solaris 2.4 cd's. I forget who
he is but I was very greatful.

BTW, every time I try to mount a solaris partition under Net or Open BSD
it trashes it. When I try to reboot to Solaris it gives me 'bad magic
number' or something like that. Then I have to reinstall Solaris. I
just gave up on trying to mount the solaris partition. I have all three
os's (NetBSD, OpenBSD and Solaris 2.4) on this machine but I never touch
the Solaris partition in another environment. Solaris 2.4 is the last
version of Sun's software that will run on this monster.

Regards,

Jeff




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On Behalf Of Ethan Dicks
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 12:32 PM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: Expect to see fewer hard drives.

--- "Jeffrey S. Worley" <Technoid_at_30below.com> wrote:
> It wouldn't let me. The os is Solaris 2.4. When I booted single-user
I
> still had to feed it the root P/W which I didn't have.

Typically for those, you boot a distro CD and mount the root partition
and edit the shadow file. Mind you, you don't need the exact version
of Solaris, just something that will run on your machine.
Alternatively,
if you have more than one Solaris box, you can mount the root drive
in the other machine, mount, edit, etc.
 
> ...I broke the machine by running Jack on the...then set the prom
> date way back...

Interesting approach. I must say that I would never have thought of
it.

-ethan
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 13:03:04 GMT