Thomas Dineen wrote:
> Gentle people:
>
> I am having trouble making bootable images of
> the Solaris 10 download files.
>
> First I download the Solaris Binaries Files
> from the Sun Site:
> sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1-iso.zip
>
> Then I unzip of course:
> sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso
>
> I assume the above file is an iso image file?
>
> Buy how do you make a bootable CD Rom Image?
>
> I have tried cdrecord:
> cdrecord -v -isosize speed=8 dev=0,0,0 sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso
>
> I have also tried Roxio Easy CD Creator?
> If you use Creator do you specify a Bootable CD in some manor?
>
> I have done this successfully in the past on Rh-9
> using mkisofs and cdrecord.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> Thomas Dineen
>

Using Roxio, you need to specify an "image". Otherwise it will create a
file system on the disk and copy your image file to the AS A FILE! The
"image" is bootable, the file system is not.