Hi all, Sorry for my stupidity, the machine I am installing on is a V440 and it only supports Solaris 8 03/07 an upwards.. Thanks for all the replies... Adrian Phipps IT Specialist Sun, AIX & Digital Operating Systems Support * (021) 949 4642 * (021) 945 4740 * phippsac@telkom.co.za * 082 787 7321 > _____________________________________________ > From: Adrian Phipps (AC) > Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2005 3:33 PM > To: 'casper.dik@sun.com' > Cc: 'sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org' > Subject: Degrading from Solaris 9 to Solaris > > Hi all, > > I have a customer that would like to degrade from 9 to 8, do you > have any procedures or docs that I can use.. I have tried to boot > from a Solaris 8 cd but to no avail.... > > Rebooting with command: boot cdrom > Boot device: /pci@1e,600000/ide@d/cdrom@0,0:f File and args: > boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix > Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: /platform/'uname -i'/kernel > boot: cannot open /platform/'uname -i'/kernel > Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: > boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv9/unix > Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: kernel/sparcv8/unix > boot: cannot open kernel/sparcv8/unix > Enter filename [kernel/sparcv9/unix]: ~ > SC Alert: SC Request to send Break to host. > > Thanks > > > Adrian Phipps > IT Specialist > Sun, AIX & Digital Operating Systems Support > * (021) 949 4642 > * (021) 945 4740 > * phippsac@telkom.co.za > * 082 787 7321 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This e-mail and its contents are subject to the Telkom SA Limited e-mail legal notice available at http://www.telkom.co.za/TelkomEMailLegalNotice.PDF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Nov 16 08:59:51 2005
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