Got the new Ultra 60

I just received my brand new (to me new...actually 8 years old) Sun Ultra 60 with 1.5 Gig of ram and 2 9 gig drive. Originally this would have cost a fortune, but I bought it on eBay for the low low price of $170 . Now I know many of you will say "I could have gotten that cheaper" and you probably right, however I just wanted to get the system and not spend three weeks hunting.

I also got a junky (huge) sony 21" monitor and a 13W3 - VGA SVGA Monitor Adapter so that they can live happily together. I also downloaded the Solaris 10 OS from the sun site (for free..Sun rocks!).

Powered it up and ...memory check.....then nada...

Hmm...ok, so maybe there's no Solaris OS, that fine. I prefer to do fresh installs on new machines anyways.

1. Solaris CD 1 goes in and power up
2. Hit Stop - A to force the system into OpenBoot PROM
3. at ok prompt boot cdrom
4. then......nada

Dang!

So I did some research at the source of all information...the great and powerful Google. It turns out that it could be a bad image or possible a bad CD drive on the ultra 60. I re-downloaded Solaris ISO's and re-burned a multitude of different ways and still nothing.

Back to OK prompt...

probe-scsi-all is showing both disks and the CD. Maybe the CD drive is bad. Luckily I already had a Sun external CD showing up later today. So we shall see.....more later