Solaris 8 02/04 Operating environment disks needed
edited Feb 10, 2012 5:20PM in Oracle Solaris Installation, Booting and Patching (MOSC) 3 commentsAnswered
I downloaded p10356262_800_SOLARIS_8_64-bit and p10356257_800_SOLARIS_8_32-bit to get an installation disk that would support Solaris 8 on a v490. I found the boot media iso in the zip file and used it successfully on a V490. It installs the boot environment on hard drive, then reboots successfully. However, I get as far as the point where it asks for the "Solaris 8 Operating Environment" and there I stop. The other iso's in the patch are 1) sol-8-hw4-lang-sparc 2) sol-8-hw4-sparc-v1 3) sol-8-hw4-sparc-v2 4) sol-8-hw4-supp but none of them contain the 02/04 Operating Environment. The install process rejects them all. If I insert
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