On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Christian Liendo <christian_liendo at yahoo.com> wrote: I remember always using the FWB Toolkit in the 6.x and 7.x days. I got a copy with a Reno external CD-ROM drive/portable audio drive (the disc transport detached from the SCSI base). I don't have specific datapoints, but that sounds about right. You _might_ be able to use a DVD-R with 8.x, but I can't recall for certain. ISTR you can use a Sun CD-ROM drive, too, because of the 512-bytes-per-block mode, but that may be a fuzzy memory (I'm reasonably certain you can install Solaris on old Sun gear with a bootable Apple drive). What I don't recall is if the CD-ROM drive needs to merely support 512-b-p-b mode by responding to a specific SCSI packet, or if it has to default to 512-b-p-b mode at power-on (old Suns won't send the packet, but newer ones will, which is why I'm a little fuzzy with that level of detail off the top of my head - all of this has been hashed and rehashed, so if I personally were setting something up, I'd start googling about bootable CD-ROM drives to refresh my memory). -ethan