Is it possible to take the DVD drive out of say, a V240, and install
into a V100? Or  is V240 a SCSI CD drive and V100 IDE?

If not, is it possible to boot the V100 from an external USB DVD
drive?

Or is the only way Solaris 10 on CD?

"BertieBigBollox@gmail.com" <bertiebigbollox@gmail.com> writes:
>Is it possible to take the DVD drive out of say, a V240, and install
>into a V100? Or  is V240 a SCSI CD drive and V100 IDE?

Their specs both say they are ATAPI drives. I haven't ever seen a slimline
SCSI drive. They are all ATAPI or SATA AFAIK. 

>If not, is it possible to boot the V100 from an external USB DVD
>drive?

I don't think that system has a new enough OBF to do that. 

>Or is the only way Solaris 10 on CD?

Network boot and jumpstart.  

There was something 1U along this line that didn't even have a
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM bay, I would have said 120V, but that doesn't seem to
be it. Must have been the X1. 

They also still have the external SCSI port. I keep around an external
Pioneer SCSI DVD-ROM drive to do one-off installs on this class of
systems too.  Man, haven't dug that out in some time. If you don't
have another SPARC system to jumpstart from, this is probably your
easiest bet, even better than trying to find Solaris 10 on CD-ROM. 

Once you get Sol10 on their once, you can LU it and not worry about
DVD-ROM any longer. 

Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org> wrote:
> systems too.  Man, haven't dug that out in some time. If you don't
> have another SPARC system to jumpstart from, this is probably your

It doesn't need to be a SPARC.  I've jumpstarted a system from an x86
Solaris install running in Virtualbox on a Windows laptop.

-- 
Brandon Hume    - hume -> BOFH.Ca, http://WWW.BOFH.Ca/

On 6/20/2011 9:19 AM, BertieBigBollox@gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to take the DVD drive out of say, a V240, and install
> into a V100? Or  is V240 a SCSI CD drive and V100 IDE?
>
> If not, is it possible to boot the V100 from an external USB DVD
> drive?
>
> Or is the only way Solaris 10 on CD?

https://sunsolve.sun.com/data/816/816-2756/pdf/816-2756-10.pdf

> I've jumpstarted a system from an x86 Solaris install running in Virtualbox on a Windows laptop.

By far the best way to load these old systems.

On Jun 20, 2:57 pm, Doug McIntyre <mer...@geeks.org> wrote:
> "BertieBigBol...@gmail.com" <bertiebigbol...@gmail.com> writes:
> >Is it possible to take the DVD drive out of say, a V240, and install
> >into a V100? Or  is V240 a SCSI CD drive and V100 IDE?
>
> Their specs both say they are ATAPI drives. I haven't ever seen a slimline
> SCSI drive. They are all ATAPI or SATA AFAIK.
>
> >If not, is it possible to boot the V100 from an external USB DVD
> >drive?
>
> I don't think that system has a new enough OBF to do that.
>
> >Or is the only way Solaris 10 on CD?
>
> Network boot and jumpstart.
>
> There was something 1U along this line that didn't even have a
> CD-ROM/DVD-ROM bay, I would have said 120V, but that doesn't seem to
> be it. Must have been the X1.
>
> They also still have the external SCSI port. I keep around an external
> Pioneer SCSI DVD-ROM drive to do one-off installs on this class of
> systems too.  Man, haven't dug that out in some time. If you don't
> have another SPARC system to jumpstart from, this is probably your
> easiest bet, even better than trying to find Solaris 10 on CD-ROM.
>
> Once you get Sol10 on their once, you can LU it and not worry about
> DVD-ROM any longer.

You're right. External DVD doesnt work.

In the end I borrowed a DVD drive from one of our 240s. All I had to
do was swap around the clips that hold the drive in (on the 240 its
the hot swappable type but on the 100 you have to take the lid off).

This worked fine and I was able to install Solaris 10 from DVD.

Thanks for help everyone.