how to create a bootfloppy of Solaris 2.6 on x86
dick dijk
Does anyone know how to create a bootfloppy of Solaris 2.6 on x86?
Dick
Logan Shaw
dick dijk <dd...@hetnet.nl> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to create a bootfloppy of Solaris 2.6 on x86?
Go to http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/dca_diskettes/ .
It has an image you can download and directions on how to
turn that into a floppy.
Of course, that's just a device configuration assistant floppy, which
may or may not be what you mean by "boot floppy".
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dick dijk
boot), until last week I could boot Solaris from the NT bootloader, but last
week I had to reinstall NT and after that I couldn't boot Solaris anymore
from the NT bootloader. What I am planning to do is reinstall Solaris and
then add an entry to the NT bootloader (for some reason Solaris has to be
the last installed OS in order to make it bootable from NT ?!) .
But to prevent this hassle in the future, it would be nice to create a
floppy under Solaris that I can use to boot Solaris ( then I am not so
vulnerable for NT mbr screwups).
Do you understand what I am trying to do?
Dick
What I mean is a floppy to start Solaris
Logan Shaw <lo...@cs.utexas.edu> wrote in message
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Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer
"dick dijk" <dd...@hetnet.nl> writes:
>I have installed Solaris 2.6 on a Pentium, next to NT and Linux (triple
>boot), until last week I could boot Solaris from the NT bootloader, but last
>week I had to reinstall NT and after that I couldn't boot Solaris anymore
>from the NT bootloader. What I am planning to do is reinstall Solaris and
>then add an entry to the NT bootloader (for some reason Solaris has to be
>the last installed OS in order to make it bootable from NT ?!) .
>But to prevent this hassle in the future, it would be nice to create a
>floppy under Solaris that I can use to boot Solaris ( then I am not so
>vulnerable for NT mbr screwups).
Download the Solaris 8 CD images; you can boot those.
(Given sufficiently recent hardware)
Casper
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