I tried to install the 1.6 iso onto my sparc5 tonight but met with some
errors...

if anyone can shed some light onto this I would be most gratefull!

basically the scsi cdrom craps itself..

I have successfully installed solaris 2.5 via booting the cdrom.
(and I should note the cdrom I originally pulled from a HP-C200 machine)


(here is the cdrom info from the intial kernel boot)

sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 22 MHz
dma0 at sbus0 slot 5 offset 0x8400000: dma rev 2
esp0 at dma0 slot 5 offset 0x8800000 level 4: ESP200, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target

sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <FUJITSU, M2954ESP SUN4.2G, 2848> SCSI2
0/direct
 fixed
sd0: 4094 MB, 3882 cyl, 16 head, 135 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8385121
sectors
sd0: sync (100.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers, tagged
queueing
cd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-5401TA, 1036> SCSI2
5/cdrom
removable
cd0: sync (248.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (4.032MB/s) transfers
md0: internal 680 KB image area
root on md0a dumps on md0b
WARNING: clock gained 15 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
Welcome to the NetBSD/sparc microroot setup utility.




when selecting my cdrom, i get

CD-ROM device to use [/dev/cd0a]:
Path to instfs.tgz [/cdrom/sparc/installation/bootfs/instfs.tgz]
cd0(esp0:0:6:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf03be000 (flags 0x1, dleft
10000, stat 0
)], <state 5, nexus 0xf03be000, phase(l 1, c 1, p 1), resid 10000, msg(q
0,o 0)
DMA active>
cd0(esp0:0:6:0): sync negotiation disabled
cd0(esp0:0:6:0): esp0: timed out [ecb 0xf03be000 (flags 0x41, dleft
10000, stat
0)], <state 5, nexus 0xf03be000, phase(l 1, c 1, p 1), resid 10000,
msg(q 20,o 0
) DMA active> AGAIN
esp0: invalid state: 6
esp0: resetting SCSI bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset
esp0: invalid state: 6
esp0: resetting SCSI bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset
esp0: invalid state: 6
esp0: resetting SCSI bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset
esp0: invalid state: 6
esp0: resetting SCSI bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset
esp0: invalid state: 6
esp0: resetting SCSI bus
esp0: SCSI bus reset
...
...
ad infinatum...




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