I installed Solaris 8 on an Ultra 1 and every time I pointed the 
included Netscape at a real web site (like www.sunsolve.sun.com) I 
got booted back to the login screen.  I booted the 1.5.2 sparc64 
miniroot and every time it tried to write to the disk  I got booted 
back to the kernel debugger (and there was no stack to trace).

In fact I've done this three times and reinstalling Solaris 2.6 just 
so I can install NetBSD is not fun.  I'm probably going to try 2.7 
and leave it at that (if it works), but if anyone wants some 
debugging that I can provide give a holler.

Since I don't think the boot prom can read miniroot.fs.gz and most 
versions of Solaris don't bundle gzip it would be nice if you put 
miniroot.fs instead of the gzipped version on the iso image.  I put 
it on another machine and ftp'ed it back for the second and third 
attempt.  If it were just there it would save a step, but not as big 
a step as if the image were bootable.  (I'm sure you have all heard 
this before.)

Background:  UltraSPARC 143MHz, 2GB internal disk, 128MB memory, OpenBoot 3.25.

I'm on the macppc list, but not this one.  Please cc me directly with 
responses.
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Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu