I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll start
here first...

A friend gave me an old Sparc 10 that he didn't want any more. He hasn't
used it in years. He'd loaded Debian Linux on it and the original Solaris
wasn't in the boxes he gave me.  I can't log on, because he's fogotten the
root password.  I was going to reload Linux on it, but how do I get the
system to boot from the CD ROM drive?

Thanks,
Mark

On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:50:03 GMT, Mark
<gojira@lizardlair.no-spam.no-ip.com> wrote:

>I don't know if this is the right place to ask this question, but I'll start
>here first...
>
>A friend gave me an old Sparc 10 that he didn't want any more. He hasn't
>used it in years. He'd loaded Debian Linux on it and the original Solaris
>wasn't in the boxes he gave me.  I can't log on, because he's fogotten the
>root password.  I was going to reload Linux on it, but how do I get the
>system to boot from the CD ROM drive?

From the boot prompt (Stop-A to get there) type:

boot cdrom

Josh

Josh McKee wrote:

> On Sat, 20 Aug 2005 16:50:03 GMT, Mark
> 
> From the boot prompt (Stop-A to get there) type:
> 
> boot cdrom
> 
> Josh

Thanks!  I'll give it a try.

Mark

Hi,

Are we talking about Sun SparcStation 10 ?

1) Can Debian Linux or someother linux flavour actually run on Sun SS10
?

2) What other operating system can Sun SS10 run beside Sun OS 4.x ?

3) Where can we get the " system administrator manual " on the above ?

Rgds
JC

On 1 Sep 2005 09:24:15 -0700, "JC" <Jhayi22@gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Are we talking about Sun SparcStation 10 ?
>
>1) Can Debian Linux or someother linux flavour actually run on Sun SS10
>?
>
>2) What other operating system can Sun SS10 run beside Sun OS 4.x ?

A Sparc 10 can run all versions of Solaris except for Solaris 10.

Josh

JC wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Are we talking about Sun SparcStation 10 ?
> 
> 1) Can Debian Linux or someother linux flavour actually run on Sun SS10
> ?

Yes. Splack 8.0 runs rather well, Assorted BSD variants are also OK.

> 2) What other operating system can Sun SS10 run beside Sun OS 4.x ?

Solaris up to Solaris 9, if you have sufficient memory.
Solaris 2.6 is happy with only 32Mb. 7, 8 and 9 need progressively more.

> 3) Where can we get the " system administrator manual " on the above ?
> 

You probably want the Field Engineers Handbook.
http://www.SunShack.org/
All Solaris versions are documented at http://docs.sun.com/