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Hi everyone I'm trying to do a Solaris 10 install onto an Ultra 60 system which
has a normal CD-ROM drive.

All has gone well (after learning a few tricks which can crash the installation
process) but now that all the selected software of the 4 main CD's has been
loaded, I'm being asked to put in a Documentation disk, and the only one I've
got as a DVD format one. The box of CD's didn't include a documentation CD, and
when I tried the documentation DVD the CD-ROM drive was able to accept it
happily but I'm guessing that the data can't be read off the DVD so I keep
getting an error box and going back to the same 'insert Documentation disk'
part of the install again.

Is there any way around this, given that I don't have a SCSI DVD-ROM drive on
hand? I'm going to cancel the installation and start from scratch again but
customise the packages and de-select anything relating to documentation (are
the man page packages on the documentation dvd or one of the 4 main CD's?) to
see if that prevents the install asking for something that doesn't exist!

Regards,

Craig.

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Craig Dewick wrote:
>
> Hi everyone I'm trying to do a Solaris 10 install onto an Ultra 60
> system which has a normal CD-ROM drive.
>
> All has gone well (after learning a few tricks which can crash the
> installation process) but now that all the selected software of the 4
> main CD's has been loaded, I'm being asked to put in a Documentation
> disk, and the only one I've got as a DVD format one. The box of CD's
> didn't include a documentation CD, and when I tried the documentation
> DVD the CD-ROM drive was able to accept it happily but I'm guessing that
> the data can't be read off the DVD so I keep getting an error box and
> going back to the same 'insert Documentation disk' part of the install
> again.
>
> Is there any way around this, given that I don't have a SCSI DVD-ROM
> drive on hand? I'm going to cancel the installation and start from
> scratch again but customise the packages and de-select anything relating
> to documentation (are the man page packages on the documentation dvd or
> one of the 4 main CD's?) to see if that prevents the install asking for
> something that doesn't exist!
>
> Regards,
>
> Craig.
>

The documentation has nothing to do with the base Solaris install. It
is true that the installer is mistaken in asking you to insert the
CD-ROM if you got the boxed set of Sol 10 media (cause it only comes on
DVD).

If you are that point of the install just pick skip, you will have a
fully functionally sol 10 install, you just won't have /opt/sun_docs.

If you do a 2nd install, no need to deselect individual packages, the
Docs are an entirely seperate entity from the OS, just on the screen
that asks you if you want JES, Sun Docs, Companion CD and about 2 other
things, just uncheck the Sun Docs.

This is all from memory so sorry if it is too vague to help, but I just
had the same issue on a Ultra 10, and everything worked out fine.

Neal

"Neal A. Lucier" <nlucier@math.purdue.edu> writes:

>The documentation has nothing to do with the base Solaris install. It
>is true that the installer is mistaken in asking you to insert the
>CD-ROM if you got the boxed set of Sol 10 media (cause it only comes on
>DVD).

>If you are that point of the install just pick skip, you will have a
>fully functionally sol 10 install, you just won't have /opt/sun_docs.

>If you do a 2nd install, no need to deselect individual packages, the
>Docs are an entirely seperate entity from the OS, just on the screen
>that asks you if you want JES, Sun Docs, Companion CD and about 2 other
>things, just uncheck the Sun Docs.

>This is all from memory so sorry if it is too vague to help, but I just
>had the same issue on a Ultra 10, and everything worked out fine.

Thanks Neal. I discovered the 'skip' option after posting the message. 8-)

The JES software is only in DVD format too, and it would also not read, so
the system I did the install on doesn't have any of the Sun docs, or the JES
stuff. That might explain why when logging into the newly-installed system,
selecting CDE caused something to crash and make the machine reboot, but
picking the Java desktop option (which seems to be a desktop manager based
on GNOME) worked ok.

Craig.
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