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by **Paul Dickin** » Fri, 28 Sep 2001 06:00:42

Hi,
Does anyone know where on the Sun site there may be information on how to
install Solaris 8 without a boot disk. Since this machine came with a wiped
hard drive, there is no way to make a bootable CD. Has anyone been able to
work around this problem?

The machien has an external CD-ROM, SCSI, which is seen by the ROM on the
712/60, but I cannot, obviously, boot from it. The CD has the Instal CD for
Solaris 8 inserted, but cannot read anything. I was told that Solaris runs
well on a 712/60, and would love to prove that point.

Regards,
Paul

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by **cjt & trefoi** » Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:03:16

I'd be surprised if you could get _any_ version of Solaris running on an HP
machine, and in particular Solaris 8 (which is available for Sun and X86,
neither of which is binary compatible with PA-RISC). Get a Sun. Or a copy
of HP-UX.

Maybe you were told UNIX runs on a 712/60?

> Hi,
> Does anyone know where on the Sun site there may be information on how to
> install Solaris 8 without a boot disk. Since this machine came with a wiped
> hard drive, there is no way to make a bootable CD. Has anyone been able to
> work around this problem?

> The machien has an external CD-ROM, SCSI, which is seen by the ROM on the
> 712/60, but I cannot, obviously, boot from it. The CD has the Instal CD for
> Solaris 8 inserted, but cannot read anything. I was told that Solaris runs
> well on a 712/60, and would love to prove that point.

> Regards,
> Paul

> --
> Non, je n'ai rien oubli - Lvis Bouliane
> sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt - Virgil
> de gustibus non disputandum est - attrib Cicero
> Association Football: http://www.mattoid.net
> Information Technology: http://www.mattoid.com
> Ephemera: http://www.mattoid.ca

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712/60 HP PA-RISC no boot disk