Sun Blade 150

[jeanpaul]

Does anyone knows how to install windows xp on a Sun Blade 150?


Rgds

[CanonSco]

WOW.

Its been a while since I booted up a Blade 150, BUT -

Is it not just the same as any other OS install?

Insert the Windows XP installation CD into the Sun Blade 150. ( it does have a cd drive, yes? )

Restart the Sun Blade. Press any key to boot from CD.Press "Enter" at the Welcome screen and "F8" at the license screen.

Press "D" to delete the existing system partitions.Press "C" to create a new Windows XP partition. Select the "NTFS" file system, highlight the partition and press "Enter" to install XP.

Or am I missing something here that this would not work? How much RAM in your 150?

Blast from he past - I Used , almost exclusively , SUNSparc's etc when I worked offshore. Didn't really touch a windows machine at work in those days.

[jeanpaul]

Thanks for the reply,
The problem is that I cannot boot from the CD.How can I set the SunBlade 150 to boot from CD?
The Sun Blade 150 RAM is 512.

[Hemlock]

Thinking this may not be possible. Windows OS's run on/support x86 processors such as those made by AMD, Intel or clones. The Sun box uses a completely different processor (Sparc) that supports a proprietary OS as well as several other open source types like Unix/Linux. From what I've read, there's a piece of hardware you can install (SunPCI card) that hosts a manipulated version of NT, but the cots (commercial, off the shelf) versions of Windows usually don't work.

This'd be a great opportunity to learn one of the *nix platforms, if you're not already familiar with them.

[CanonSco]

Thanks for the reply,
The problem is that I cannot boot from the CD.How can I set the SunBlade 150 to boot from CD?
The Sun Blade 150 RAM is 512.

Why>? What happens when booting with the CD in the drive.
Do you get anything? Any errors? Do you get to the OBP menu / ok> Prompt?

If you dont get the OK> prompt or any errors, Press STOP + A at the OBP menu screen to get the OK> prompt.

From the OK> prompt you can use a "boot cdrom -s" to boot from CD.