Howdy, Thanks to those who responded to this question (see below). I tried the cd on a different u5 and IT BOOTED!!!!! AND installed... It's strange to NOT have openwin any more so I copied /usr/openwin from my 2.8 system and it works fine. Get your free copy from sun today... I DO NOT WORK FOR SUN. Regards, George... Ed Dyer came up with a GOOD hint tho. > I bet you are not using a Sun CD reader :) > > Some readers are set to read 512 bytes per sector, (Sun, DEC) > others 2K per sector (most brands.) So when the reader tries to > read a block of 2K, but the sector size on the disk is only 512, > it goes tilt! > > If you are lucky then you can tell the drive to read 512 byte > blocks, either by a dip switch or jumper, or else in software. > Otherwise I think you need to find a more suitable drive. > Ed Dyer > Technical Director > Chebucto Community Network Brett Lymn, Computer Systems Administrator, BAE SYSTEMS also responded. _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sat Mar 2 13:28:23 2002
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