HELP!; the machinery; desktop SPARC 2 workstation 64mb RAM/type 4 kybd. OS, etc; Solaris 2.4.1/CDE 1.2/OPENWINDOWS Vers.? generic UNIX vers. V the problem; my roommate, who is in finland for the next month, recently purchased several of the above systems, as he is what most folks would call a 'computer genius...i, on the other hand, am not. i can get around on pc's and macs but UNIX/Linux...forget it! i admit i haven't the patience to learn the system- i am familiar with a handful of vital commands/functions, but just what i need to know...i am far from being a complete idiot, but i have a VERY basic understanding of the diff between a shell and a kernel..so- there are 3 workstations in the house (yes, the house)- yesterday, the one i have been working on did this; i was running netscape and all of a sudden, my workspace started to disentegrate...first, netscape, then the color, and then NOTHING. i hit "stop-A" and typed "sync"- the machine began to sync and then it just froze...i left it alone for about an hour and nothing had changed upon my return so i shut it down. when i switched it back on, it could not find the boot device. i then applied logic. i keyed in help/system and so on ...i keyed in "words", looking for commands that might get me there but nothing worked (find-dev, locate-device, setenv commands, etc).. i tried booting -a/-as...boot fd,boot sd, boot le...still the same. i then tried switching the drive on while holding down 'stop-D'... i could go on but i would not know what info to write that might assist someone in assisting me. so, it 'can't find boot device' when attempting to boot from the disk, and when i switch it to boot from net, it gives me something like 'waiting for ARP/RARP' (which never comes... i have no cdrom drive, no boot disks, no tape drive, etc... and no sense whatsoever of how i might rectify this little fix i've gotten myself into...also, my roommate is the root-user so a bunch of the commands i tried gave me "Data Access Exception", and i found very minimal assistance on the web...well, that about wraps it up... CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME!?!?!? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com