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when I try to boot from the first of 3 cd's, by typing "boot cd", I get the following:


cannot open: cd
enter filename [cd]:

Any ideas? I can hear the cd drive spinning, so its not a mechanical problem

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Quick practical note for (and who asked for more detail): Sun SPARC machines use the OpenBoot PROM (the ok prompt) and boot devices by alias or by full device path. Typing boot cd can fail because cd is not a standard alias on many PROMs. The usual short alias is cdrom, and the common safe command to try is boot cdrom -s (single-user boot). (docs.oracle.com)

If that does not work, gather firmware info and device names so you can see why the PROM cannot open the CD device. At the ok prompt run devalias to list aliases, and run probe-scsi-all or probe-ide (Ultra 5 often uses IDE) to force a device probe. show-devs will list full device paths. If cdrom appears, boot that; if not, use the full path or create an alias. (stromasys.atlassian.net)

Example quick sequence to run at the ok prompt:

ok devalias
ok probe-scsi-all     # or: ok probe-ide
ok devalias
ok boot cdrom -s

If you see a full device path (for example /pci@...,cdrom@...,f), either ok boot <full-path> or make an alias ok devalias cdrom <full-path> then ok reset-all and ok boot cdrom -s. Also confirm the Debian CD is a SPARC-bootable image (Debian has separate sparc installer images and network install options). If this still fails, post the output of banner, devalias, and the probe command so others can read the device tree and advise further. (docs.oracle.com)

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i'm guessing you don't have any documentation on how to perform the install, eh? i'm guessing you're running a flavor of unix, Solaris? i'm guesssing that you've browsed the cd for installables/executables? i'm guessing we could us a bit more info.

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