[PLUG] Convert Sun Ultra5 to Linux

Aaron Baer aaronb at personaltelco.net
Mon Jan 10 23:39:30 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:36 -0800, Steven D. Coffman wrote:
> Hope someone knows this. I have a Sun Ultra5 system and I am trying to
> install Linux over it. The danged OpenBoot system just won't let me
> execute a different boot disk, etc. It keeps going to it's default Sun
> system.
> I don't want to keep the data or the OS, it's old stuff and I'm using
> the box to install our new firewall using Linux.
> 
> Any clues to get around this and have it execute the boot disk would
> really help.


Press ' stop + A ' when the machine powers on.. then type  "boot cdrom"
at the boot prompt.. it will restart the machine and boot from the
cdrom. 

A-
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Aaron Baer
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http://aaron.slyness.org/
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