Burned the images onto CD and trying to install from CD. I can boot
successfully but then it takes AGES to copy anything from CD (its
currently been running for about 2 hours copying from CD to mini-root
during install).
I've previosuly done an install using Sw disk1 and that took hours to
read the CD.
Any ideas ?
> Burned the images onto CD and trying to install from
> CD. I can boot
> successfully but then it takes AGES to copy anything
> from CD (its
> currently been running for about 2 hours copying from
> CD to mini-root
> during install).
'mini-root'? There's no copying during a normal CD boot except during the actual OS installation. Have you started the install at this point?
> I've previosuly done an install using Sw disk1 and
> that took hours to
> read the CD.
Maybe on a really slow machine. On an Ultra 5 you should get the Suninstall setup screens within 5 minutes. A full install should be under 2 hours. (Probably closer to an hour, but I haven't done a Solaris 8 install on a U5 in a while).
If it's taking "hours" to read the first disk, something is wrong on either the machine, the drive, or the media.
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Darren