Lost root password - no cd 3

[Jillba]

I am a consultant and on my site we have a Sun Ultra-2 that I want to bring up for Oracle. I have the workstation on my desk. I am the Oracle DBA. No one here knows any passwords or knows where the cds are. I called Sun and they want a $2500 PO just to talk to me. Can anyone help me bring up this machine?

 

[Jillba]

Are there specifics I need to know about when burning a CD. He at least knew what a ISO file was!

 

[coffeysm]

Well it should have made it bootable when it was created. Are you able to see anything on the disc if you stick it in a pc?

 

[Jillba]

yes. i can traverse through the folders, etc.

 

[Annihilannic]

When he created the CD, did he use "Bootable CD" as described on this page (the second part is about Roxio):

http://www.bootdisk.com/nero.htm

Annihilannic.

 

[Jillba]

He did not say bootable CD. He is gone now! I have a personal copy of Roxio and a CD burner at home. I'm going to burn one this weekend. Wait. That didn't sound right! Soooo Close. Thanks Annihilannic!

 

[Annihilannic]

Annihilannic.

 

[dandan123]

Some CDRs don't work on Sun boxes, that has been my experience.

Try a blank Toyo uden , sp ? if you can get hold of one

 

[daFranze]

I used to download a Solaris Exporess Version. I had some problems burning the CD. Fix was: the image itself was not bootable, I had to download another iso-file. I usually burn 8x speed, since Sun's OBP/CDdrive seems to be a little bit fussy about that.

Best Regards, Franz
--
UNIX System Manager from Munich, Germany

 

[Jillba]

Hi again. I received the CDs, which turned out to be DVDs. Does this matter. Is there a 'boot dvdrom -s"? It has been booting for a while over a half hour. It just says:

Rebooting with command: boot cdrom -s
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,fas@e,8800000/sd@6, 0:f File and args: -s

No blinking on the cdrom any more.

 

[dandan123]

I believe the drive on the E2 is a CD drive ? In which case it's not going to boot.