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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

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?
>
There are instruction on the download page. I don't know about
cdrecord, but cdrw -i sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso will do the trick.

--
Ian Collins.

Ian:

Where can I find cdrw?

Is it freeware? Available on Solaris
or maybe linux?

I have cd write capabilaity on a PC and on
RH Linux.

Thanks for the help.
Thomas Dineen


Ian Collins wrote:
> 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?
>>
>
> There are instruction on the download page. I don't know about
> cdrecord, but cdrw -i sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso will do the trick.
>

On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Thomas Dineen wrote:

PLease don't top post.

> Where can I find cdrw?

In /usr/bin on any reasonably recent version of Solaris.

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On Mar 3, 8:03 pm, Rich Teer <rich.t...@rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Thomas Dineen wrote:
> PLease don't top post.

Indeed. Or post to a generic non Sun newsgroup maybe...
Trimmed to comp.sys.sun.admin

> > Where can I find cdrw?
> In /usr/bin on any reasonably recent version of Solaris.

cdrecord comes with 10 as well.

To para-quote from the manpage:

"To record a pure CD-ROM at 8x speed, using data from the
file sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso:
cdrecord -v speed=8 dev=0,0 sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso"

If in doubt about "dev" you could use
cdrecord -scanbus

To check the image there are md5 checksums for each piece
at the download site. openssl can check it for you:
openssl md5 sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1.iso

You can still do all the right things but the thing still may not boot
if
the recording media is not recognized by CDROM firmware, but
generally CDs are "better" on older SPARCs than DVD images I find.

Thomas Dineen wrote:
> First I download the Solaris Binaries Files
> from the Sun Site:
> sol-10-u3-ga-sparc-v1-iso.zip
>
> I have done this successfully in the past on Rh-9
> using mkisofs and cdrecord.

This might be obvious, but you realize that you downloaded
the SPARC version, right? If you're trying to install Solaris
on a PC you need the X86 version.

On Mar 3, 6:24 pm, Thomas Dineen <tjjdin...@comcast.net> 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?
>

Search the web for a freeware or demo version of Nero 6.

It is able to burn the ISO image to a CD.

There are of course other packages that do this, but that was a
recommendation I'd read on the Sun website some time ago. I don't
know if that recommendation is still there -- but it did work -- and
most importantly from my perspective, the package was free.

(I don't mind shelling out some $$ for a useful utility, but I might
create an ISO image once a year or less, so for me it's not worth it.)

Now -- you'll need a PC with a CD writer to use Nero -- then once
you've created the CD, you'll need a Sun Sparc machine to attempt
booting from the CD.

(BTW, you seem to have misspelled a newsgroup: Google complained about
comp.umix.admin. I guess they don't like the "m".)

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.

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> 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.

see -> http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/features...so_images.html

Words to the wise, Thomas Dineen <tjjdineen@comcast.net> wrote:

>Ian:
>
> Where can I find cdrw?
>
> Is it freeware? Available on Solaris
>or maybe linux?

You can always use cdrecord, which is how I burn the few CDs I need.

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