Re: Netra X1 install question

On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:56:43 pm Gary W. Smith wrote:
> I have a stack of Netra X1's and was looking to repurpose them.  Anyway, I
> can get bootp working and get up to the disk partition part, at which time
> no disks are detected.  Reading somewhere, it says that I need to change
> the disk labels from SUN to something else.  Is there a way to do this
> without cracking the cases of each one?
>
> If I do have to crack the cases, what exactly do I need to do?
no need to crack the cases open,  I have 2 of them here.  make sure you use 
the corona tree to install. we use sun disk partitions.  you will need to 
remove all partitions to get free space if solaris is taking up all the disk.  
http://wiki.auroralinux.net/wiki/NetBootRarp  should give you a good guide to 
get started on.

Dennis
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