27 Mar
2000
27 Mar
'00
3:41 p.m.
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 Technoid(a)cheta.net wrote:
I can't seem to get a CDROM working on the
machine. The entire scsi
subsystem does not want to function. The CDROM is unterminated on it's
own address with parity off. The hard disk which does boot, parity off,
terminated at end of chain.
What kind of cdrom? Does it support 512k blocksize? Have you looked at the
Sun HW faq? Sun machines have a strange system of assigning/referencing
scsi id no's...
Should I just mount this drive under linux and get
root access that way?
Should I install solaris for x86 to gain root? What filesystem is SUNOS
5.4 using so I can tell Linux what to use?
SunOS uses the UFS filesystem, you'll need linux kernel 2.1.112 or higher
to try the experimental read-write UFS (earlier is read-only). Backup
first...
Basically, you need to boot from the install CD/floppy/net in order to
hack it. Booting to single user mode here can help if you munge the root
user line (like set shell to /bin/oops or something) but won't let you
bypass the root password. You need to focus on getting the CD working.
Aaron