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Post August 14th, 2007, 1:27 pm

Is there anyway to force a machine/bios that only boots from CD to boot from DVD,

I was wanting to install Solaris 10 and I would prefer not to burn 5/6 CDs, just one DVD.

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Post August 14th, 2007, 1:27 pm

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Post August 14th, 2007, 2:40 pm

Is there a BIOS update available for that machine?
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Post December 18th, 2007, 10:49 pm

Is the DVD an ISO image?
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Post December 19th, 2007, 1:22 am

as long as you have a dvd drive, the statement "boot to cd" is antiquated and if yo u set it to this option, it will try booting from your cd and/or dvd rom drive before booting from the hard disk or floppy (whichever you have set next in the boot order)
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Post December 19th, 2007, 7:24 am

Solaris (IMHO) is the largest compounded mistake Sun ever made.

They flip-flop back and forth between SysV and BSD, they have no identity, and the code is bloatware.

Sun would have been far wiser to concentrate on good hardware and a sparc port of FreeBSD.

Oh, sorry ... off topic. Rant over.
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Post December 20th, 2007, 7:34 am

Daemonguy wrote:
They flip-flop back and forth between SysV and BSD, they have no identity, and the code is bloatware.
totally agree.
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Post December 20th, 2007, 11:28 am

Yeah, what Daemonguy said ;)

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