• Re: Solaris installation on a SPARC T5-2 from a remote CDROM ISO

    From Mohammed Zaid Patel@21:1/5 to Andrew Gabriel on Mon Oct 3 04:54:52 2022
    On Friday, October 3, 2014 at 12:09:18 PM UTC+4, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
    In article <m0jpa9$lfj$1...@dont-email.me>,
    YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> writes:
    On 10/02/14 15:52, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
    Phi Nguyen <phind...@gmail.com> writes:

    It's bare metal sir

    I'm not sure how such a device will show up; likely not with devaliases
    but you should walk the device tree (from the prom)

    Surely, this must be documented how you boot from the disks mounted
    through the ILOM.


    It may depend where his laptop is in relation to the server.

    But TBH it fails more often than it succeeds. It will be quicker if he
    sets up an AI server (in a VM if his laptop is not running solaris)
    Yes, it's very difficult to do it across a WAN - all the SMF services
    keep timing out due to slow CD access, and you will spend an hour or
    two repeatedly clearing them until you get enough of the system up to
    load an image into the local drives.

    I've had to do this a few times when it was the only way to install a
    remote system. It needs a boot-time option to disable all SMF timeouts,
    or that needs to be the default for the installation system's miniroot.

    --
    Andrew Gabriel
    [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
    Please run "probe-scsi-all" , then after you will be able to see rcdrom

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  • From YTC#1@21:1/5 to Mohammed Zaid Patel on Mon Oct 3 18:40:24 2022
    On 03/10/2022 12:54, Mohammed Zaid Patel wrote:
    On Friday, October 3, 2014 at 12:09:18 PM UTC+4, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
    In article <m0jpa9$lfj$1...@dont-email.me>,
    YTC#1 <b...@ytc1-spambin.co.uk> writes:
    On 10/02/14 15:52, Casper H.S. Dik wrote:
    Phi Nguyen <phind...@gmail.com> writes:

    It's bare metal sir

    I'm not sure how such a device will show up; likely not with devaliases >>>> but you should walk the device tree (from the prom)

    Surely, this must be documented how you boot from the disks mounted
    through the ILOM.


    It may depend where his laptop is in relation to the server.

    But TBH it fails more often than it succeeds. It will be quicker if he
    sets up an AI server (in a VM if his laptop is not running solaris)
    Yes, it's very difficult to do it across a WAN - all the SMF services
    keep timing out due to slow CD access, and you will spend an hour or
    two repeatedly clearing them until you get enough of the system up to
    load an image into the local drives.

    I've had to do this a few times when it was the only way to install a
    remote system. It needs a boot-time option to disable all SMF timeouts,
    or that needs to be the default for the installation system's miniroot.

    --
    Andrew Gabriel
    [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
    Please run "probe-scsi-all" , then after you will be able to see rcdrom

    8 years, not bad.
    Anyone know what the record is?

    --
    Bruce Porter
    "The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
    There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

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  • From nemo@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 4 14:19:55 2022
    On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
    8 years, not bad.

    This may be the fault of the NNTP server. I once answered a very old
    query and did not know it was old until you pointed it out. (I never
    check the dates.)


    Anyone know what the record is?


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  • From John-Paul Stewart@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 4 15:11:14 2022
    On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:

    8 years, not bad.
    Anyone know what the record is?

    A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
    about converting K&R C to ANSI C. The original post was from 1992! So
    the record is at least 30 years.

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  • From YTC#1@21:1/5 to John-Paul Stewart on Fri Oct 7 12:59:58 2022
    On 04/10/2022 20:11, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
    On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:

    8 years, not bad.
    Anyone know what the record is?

    A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
    about converting K&R C to ANSI C. The original post was from 1992! So
    the record is at least 30 years.


    :-)

    Good to see some of us still listen/read on here.
    Not seen a good query for a while though

    --
    Bruce Porter
    "The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
    There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

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  • From YTC#1@21:1/5 to nemo on Fri Oct 7 13:00:42 2022
    On 04/10/2022 19:19, nemo wrote:
    On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:
    8 years, not bad.

    This may be the fault of the NNTP server.  I once answered a very old
    query and did not know it was old until you pointed it out.  (I never
    check the dates.)

    Hmm, and the lesson here is? :-)

    Remind me not to eat any food at yours :-)


    Anyone know what the record is?




    --
    Bruce Porter
    "The internet is a huge and diverse community but mainly friendly" http://ytc1.blogspot.co.uk/
    There *is* an alternative! http://www.openoffice.org/

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  • From Ellenor Agnes Bjornsdottir@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 18 07:12:48 2022
    On 10/7/22 11:59, YTC#1 wrote:
    On 04/10/2022 20:11, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
    On 2022-10-03 13:40, YTC#1 wrote:

    8 years, not bad.
    Anyone know what the record is?

    A couple months ago in this very newsgroup somebody replied to a thread
    about converting K&R C to ANSI C.  The original post was from 1992!  So
    the record is at least 30 years.


    :-)

    Good to see some of us still listen/read on here.
    Not seen a good query for a while though


    Yeah I saw the episode with the 30 year thread necro just now.

    I'm aware I'm doing a two month thread necro here, too, hah!

    Y'all doing alright out here?

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