You can obtain the required device drivers from the Sun Blade 8000 Resource CD. Alternatively, you can download the required device drivers from the Sun Blade 8000 Series product page.
Specifically on the Resource CD, you will locate the required drivers in the following directories (support/drivers/w2K3SP1/...
):
Floppy_images. This directory provides installation floppy images. You only need to install one floppy image at boot time. The floppy set you choose to install will depend on your installation target. In addition to the floppy image, this folder contains the utility to write the drivers to a mass-storage device floppy. However, if you are performing the installation via remote KVMS, you do not need to use this utility, you can simply mount the floppy image for installation.
X86 (32 bit). This directory contains the device drivers you can choose to install after installing the OS. This directory contains the following 32-bit driver executables for the: Virtual Floppy; CPU, SAS/SATA HDDs, EMs and NEMs. You should not install any drivers that were previously installed at boot time.
X64 (64 bit). This directory contains the device drivers you can choose to install after installing the OS. This directory contains the following 64-bit driver executables for the following: Virtual Floppy; CPU, SAS/SATA HDDs, EMs and NEMs. You should not install any drivers that were previously installed at boot time.
ISO_IMAGES. This directory contains the 32-bit and 64-bit ISO images for all drivers.
To prepare the device drivers for installation, you need to perform one of the following tasks:
For Installations Using Image Files. You will need to have the floppy.img
file available for installation at boot time. You
should also have an ISO image file available after installing the OS. These files should be placed on a shared network location or on the system hosting the Sun ILOM Remote
Console application. Alternatively, you can create a RIS image containing these files, as well as, other files required for the Windows installation. For more information about
creating a RIS image, see Microsoft's documentation
For Installation Using Distribution Media. You will need to create a mass storage device floppy to store the required driver files and executables. For more information about creating a mass-storage device floppy, see the following procedure.
The following procedure to create a mass-storage device floppy requires:
On a system running Microsoft Windows, insert the Resource CD into the CD/DVD media drive.
Insert a blank floppy disk into the floppy drive.
In Windows Explorer, open the floppy_images
directory and double-click
rawrite32.exe
to run the Create Driver Utility.
Select the location of the floppy driver set (drivers on Resource CD to install) and specify the target drive location (where the floppy drive is currently
inserted) then click
Write to Disk
.
A confirmation message appears.
In the confirmation message, click OK to continue.
A message appears stating that the image successfully was written to disk.