My original post was:
> Hello world !
>
> We have a SPARCstation 330 with SunOS 4.0.3 running on it and we would like to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.2.
>
> The question is: How can we upgrade from a cdrom?
> That machine does not know "/dev/sr*" ???
>
> Should we 1) upgrade from 4.0.3 to 4.1.1 from the tape release and
> 2) upgrade from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 from the cdrom release.
>
> Or is there a way that we can have this machine recognize a cdrom ????
>
>
> Any help would be welcome.
>
> Reply to me and i will summarize if the rest of the world wnats to know !!!
>
The solution is very simple.
1) Plug the CD-ROM.
2) Insert the SunOS 4.1.2 CD
3) At the boot prompt type: "b cdrom" or "b sd(0,30,1)"
4) Do a full install with SunInstall.
Thanks to:
scott@amd.com
se@computing.lancaster.ac.uk
birger@vest.sdata.no
jeff@erie.irc.nrc.ca
randy@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
aldrich@sunrise.Stanford.EDU
ncf@tngstar.cray.com
gustavo@davinci.concordia.ca
miker@sbcoc.com
johbro@auto-trol.com
fabrice@yosemite.atmos.ucla.edu
reardon@sws.SINet.SLB.COM
russ@issi.com
ups!glenn@fourx.aus.sun.com
tellab5!vpnet!trdlnk!mike@uunet.UU.NET
J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cambridge.ac.uk
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