Hi,

I have recently aquired a SPARC Ultra1 on ebay for a very favourable price, but I now have a slight problem. Sun floppy drives are softwarre controlled, and I don't know how to open them from Openboot... I need to install openBSD as this is going to be a nice little DNS server.

If anyone can help, thanks. I can get the ok prompt using stop-a, but i only know the command to eject a floppy.

Cheers.

[edit - the 'ok test floppy' command says 'recalibrate failed', and returns -1 which I take it is the procedures error return code. If any of that helped.]

What do you mean by opening the floppy from openboot ?
Why do you need openBSD for a DNS server while Solaris has it already ?

The floppy problem has been put down to a dodgy drive, thats OK now, and I need OpenBSD because it is much more secure than Solaris. Unfortunately I just don't trust Solaris as much.

I have the same problem with the floppy im my sparc 5. It appear the error -1 "recalibrate" I think the floppy is damaged. One quuestiion, Can I replace the sun floppy for a PC floppy? are the compatible?

I doubt how OpenBSD can be "much more secure" than a DNS server installed on a hardened Solaris 10 zone.

Let me guess jamesbb, you've bought an Ultra1 that has a floppy drive but no cd-rom drive, and you're going to boot of the floppy and install OpenBSD downloading the packages as they're required for installation??

I'm just curious because I was just wondering about doing the same thing...

Cheers,

Steve