Sun CD-ROM problems

Tue Nov 26 17:44:34 PST 2002

Jumpstart, or at least a diskless boot, is really really
useful when you have real Unix boxes around.  When that
boot disk dies (they never die, but when they do ...) you
move it to your "oh crap" net segment and boot it and
recover data.

And why waste an Ultra-10 on Solaris when you could be running a
nice BSD? :)  Open/Net and FreeBSD all run on the Ultra10 (Freebsd,
newly).  You have /usr/ports/, you have source, etc.

Quoting Jim Hickstein (jxh at jxh.com):
> OK, that was good.  Let's try another one. (Sorry for the traffic, but 
> we've always said we wanted this list to be a place to go for answers, and 
> today I have two problems.)
> 
> I have this Sun Ultra-10, missing a CD-ROM drive.  Guy gave it back to 
> saying he could never get an OS loaded. (OK, maybe it's him.)  Stuff in one 
> of the PC-type POS 50x EIDE drives, disk spins up and down and up and down 
> and up and down and it boots, sort of, but takes forever.  Two or three 
> drives did the same thing.
> 
> I've got my finger on a Sun part number drive on eBay.  32x this time. 
> What are the chances this will fix anything?  Do I have a bad controller? 
> A mechanically bad CD?  (Several do the same thing.)  Have I just thrown 
> away fifty bucks on eBay?  (Again? :-)