Burn CD's in Solaris 10?

Is there a way to burn CD's in Solaris 10? I've read about mkisofs, but from what I understand, that only makes the iso and doesn't actually burn to a disk. Could it be as simple as dd?
Thanks,
Andy

and cdrw which is really useful if you have an ISO, just run cdrw -i <iso>
7/M.

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Hello All!
I have downloaded the Solaris 9 (SPARC) ISO Images, from sun.com. Now the issue is how do I use them, i.e. burn them on a CDR. First I have unzipped the images using WinZIP, and then used the ISO Buster to unpack the image files. But when I do that, I get only a few hundred kilobytes, whereas the ISO image itself are of 637 MBs.

I don't know if it is help You, because i am in a the same phase as You, but i have had similar problem, whan i used the Windows download software for TAR-s, You must use Sun Download Manager or the other certified SW or download (if it is possible) from machine, where is Solasis installed. SDM is able unzip the image into .iso file. I am afraid, that in .zip files are some sequences of data (bytes or bits) unsupported on Windows, who confuses the programs.

Solaris Installation (6/06) - MD5sums.list

Apologies in advance if I'm missing something here - I feel so cheap:-)
Are the md5 sums on the download site applicable to the Solaris 10 DVD se3gments (yes, I'm DL'ing to Linux and I am getting the zip files - Fedora FC5's unzip - think I'm doing every thing right - these are the md5sums that I'm getting:
[expletive]# md5sum sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-?.zip
85d9d98b1b559a08977dfd8021aa0cbc sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a.zip
e576442d2f1b7bab9139d04575619928 sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b.zip
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[expletive]#
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Solaris Express Login Problem

Hello,
I'm a complete rookie with Sun & Solaris, so any help someone could offer would be greatly appreciated!
I have a SunBlade 1500 (SPARC) that I purchased from university surplus. The hard drive was wiped, so I needed to install an OS. I don't have a DVD burner, so I downloaded Solaris Express Text Install, because it was the only OS I could find that would work with SPARC & could be burned to CD. Installation went fine, & the hard drive now boots to the disk. But here is my problem:
At bootup, I am asked to login, and I don't know what to do. During install, I had to make several entries for passwords & such. The "computer name" is solaris, and the "root password" is sunblade1500. I entered Bugs Bunny for "real name", Bugs for "user name", and bugs123 for "user password". I've tried all different combinations of these when prompted for login, but the only ones that seem to work and not give a "login incorrect" message are when I use either "Bugs" or "Bugs Bunny" as login, and "bugs123" as password.
Here is verbatim text of what the screen shows when I try to login with these entries:
solaris console login: Bugs
Password: bugs123
Last login: Wed Aug 17 14:06:41 on console
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_151a November 2010
Bugs@solaris:~$
After the last line (Bugs@solaris:~$), it just sits there with a prompt for me to enter something to go further, and I don't know what to enter. I've tried root, boot, startx and none of those work. What am I doing wrong, please? Thank you VERY much!

879952 wrote:
At bootup, I am asked to login, and I don't know what to do. During install, I had to make several entries for passwords & such. The "computer name" is solaris, and the "root password" is sunblade1500. I entered Bugs Bunny for "real name", Bugs for "user name", and bugs123 for "user password". I've tried all different combinations of these when prompted for login, but the only ones that seem to work and not give a "login incorrect" message are when I use either "Bugs" or "Bugs Bunny" as login, and "bugs123" as password.
Here is verbatim text of what the screen shows when I try to login with these entries:
solaris console login: Bugs
Password: bugs123
Last login: Wed Aug 17 14:06:41 on console
Oracle Corporation SunOS 5.11 snv_151a November 2010
Bugs@solaris:~$
After the last line (Bugs@solaris:~$), it just sits there with a prompt for me to enter something to go further, and I don't know what to enter. I've tried root, boot, startx and none of those work. What am I doing wrong, please? Thank you VERY much!You haven't done anything wrong.
You are logged in as the user bugs* and the system is sitting at a command-line OS prompt.
... I downloaded Solaris Express Text Install, because it was the only OS I could find that would work with SPARC & could be burned to CD. Installation went fine, & the hard drive now boots to the disk. But here is my problem:
You pulled the text-only distribution.
It's a full UNIX but you won't have a GUI.
The install files for the GUI are too much to fit on a CD.
I think it may be time for you to go buy some books.
You can also consider crawling Oracle's site for Solaris documentation.
Start here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris/overview/index.html
You can also glance at the documentation for your system.
Start here: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E19127-01/index.html
Perhaps others will choose to comment on your initial post as well.

Burning CDs/missing filenames

HI eveybody,
I downloaded oracle 10G for solaris on a windows machine and burn it on a CD,when insert the CD in Solaris 10 x86,it seems that the file names on the CDs it automount automatically are changed (you can only read the first 8 charaters of the filename)while if you put the cd back in windows it read the complete filename ??
is there a specific way to burn the cds for SOLARIS?or its just normal?

Well, you probably burned the CD with 8+3 length
filenames (meaning their names are 8 before and 3
after the dot), the reason to why you see the full
names in Windows is simply that the CD includes a
translation-table that maps the 8+3 names to the
original names.
Solaris doesn't use the translation table, so it
displays the files real name.
If you want to see the full names under Solaris, you
probably need to alter the way you burn your CD.
Does this make sense? If not i hope that someone who
is a bit more pedagogical can explain this.
.7/M.I have a CD made on a windows system which my Solaris 10 (11/06) Blade1000 does not display the long names, when it displays properly by default on my OS4 Amiga and OSX iBook. Example: Solaris (closew~1.too), Amiga (closewo.tool), iBook (closewo.tool)
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gwyche

Can't boot 250 Server w/Solaris10 free download

Hi, very new to Sun/Solaris. Attempting to fresh install Solaris 10 on Sun 250 Server. Downloaded all 4 .iso images from Sun website, extracted files, and burned to CD. From OpenBoot, here is message:
(### commented comments are my own ###)
# here I am starting server w/CD in drive:
#<Sun banner>
Boot device: disk File and args:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
#seconds later, here I am booting
#from command line:
ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@6,0:f File and args:
Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package
Can't open boot device
ok
#end of OpenBoot messages
So, the machine appears to begin boot, but fails. I have examined the files at CD root level. They are:
SOLARIS_10 (a directory)
.CTTOC
.INSTALL_CONFIG
.SLICEMAPFILE
_VOLUME.INF
COPYRIGHT
JDS_THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME
Being new to Sun, I'm guessing that the file named .INSTALL_CONFIG might be the boot file? But this file is 100% empty. I have downloaded the disc 01 .iso file twice from the Sun website, same thing each time.
Any help graciously appreciated. My goal is to get the server booted & running on Solaris 10.
If nothing else, if I just knew the name/location of the boot file(s), I might be able to figure things out.
Thank you!

Yes, I've successfully burned many sparc bootable solaris install cdroms with cdrw on both sparc and x64/x86 solaris. Assuming the image download isn't corrupted there probably is nothing wrong with your host.
We only release floppys for x64/86 installs. You can also setup jumpstart or JET on another host and net boot the e250.
Having the ISO image you can burn a bootable Sparc CD
with any program that is able to burn ISO images to
CD.That's not completely correct. You can only use a burning program that doesn't care about the size of the cdrom and just lays down the iso. The sparc bootable image is larger than a standard burnable size because of the added boot image layed out in the vtoc. I've used cdrw -C -i filename. The -C option allows the burning program to ignore the file size limits and use the raw iso. Google for "vtoc bootable cdrom site:www.sun.com" and look at the blueprints and whitepaper pdfs for more information on how to build a bootable cdrom image.
Last night I created a Sparc bootable cdrom from Nero 6.3.0.
Open Nero,
Get to the "burn iso to disk"
After selecting the iso open the configuration icon
        Select the General Tab
Uncheck the following:
                Check for correct disc format before burning
                Check joliet filenames before burning
        Select Expert Features tab
Check:
               X Enable overburn Disc-at-once burning (read the notes below)
                82min 0 sec 0 frmMine was set to 82 minutes by default.
A word of caution, if you create you're own isos and if you don't re-enable these settings to what they were, you may burn bad cdroms.
I put the disk in a solaris host, with volume managment running it mounted an Solaris 10 u1 Sparc as the following:
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s6 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s6 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0007 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:03 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s5 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s5 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0006 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:04 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s4 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s4 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0005 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:04 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s3 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s3 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0004 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:04 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s2 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s2 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0003 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:04 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s1 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s1 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/intr/largefiles/xattr/onerror=panic/dev=16c0002 on Tue Mar 7
09:07:04 2006
/cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0 on /vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s0 read only/
nosetuid/nodevices/noglobal/maplcase/rr/traildot/dev=16c0001 on Tue Mar 7 09:07
:05 2006Running df -k | grep cdrom returns
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s6      31       2      26     8%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s6
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s5      31       2      26     8%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s5
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s4      31       2      26     8%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s4
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s3      31       2      26     8%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s3
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s2      31       2      26     8%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s2
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s1 396495 377328       0   100%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s1
/vol/dev/dsk/c1t2d0/sol_10_106_sparc/s0 252034 252034       0   100%    /cdrom
/sol_10_106_sparc/s0I was able to boot from this cdrom.
Cheers,
~~sa

Creating the dvd with 9-06 files.

Hi, I have just downloaded the 5 parts for the 9-06 x86 dvd. After applying this command:
cat sol-nv-b46-x86-dvd-iso-a.zip sol-nv-b46-x86-dvd-iso-b.zip sol-nv-b46-x86-dvd-iso-c.zip sol-nv-b46-x86-dvd-iso-d.zip sol-nv-b46-x86-dvd-iso-e.zip > Solaris-9-06-dvd.iso
All appears well, until I go to burn the dvd image (Solaris-9-06-dvd.iso) the file is 2.4 GB, Gnome reports that the file is not a valid disk image. I am using SLED 10 version of Linux and have burnt a few dvd's with just a right click on the file and select the "write to disk" option.
Anyone know what's going on here?
Thanks for any assistance.
Cheers from Peter.

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That's what seems to be stated in the Download and Burning Instructions page at Sun:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/download_instruction.xml

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The goal is to install Solaris 11.1 in a Sun Sparc T5120.
Downloaded the Solaris for Sparc 11.1 Text install iso image and then burned it to a DVD-R in a Mac using the Disk Utility. The DVD mounts OK in the Mac but when trying to boot from it I in the Sparc system I get this:
{0} ok show-disks
a) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk
b) /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk
q) NO SELECTION
Enter Selection, q to quit: q
{0} ok devalias
ttya                     /ebus@c0/serial@0,ca0000
nvram                    /virtual-devices/nvram@3
net3                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/network@0,1
net2                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@3/network@0
net1                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/network@0,1
net0                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/network@0
net                      /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@2/network@0
cdrom                    /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk@0:f
disk3                    /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@3
disk2                    /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@2
disk1                    /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@1
disk0                    /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0
disk                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0/disk@0
scsi                     /pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0
virtual-console          /virtual-devices/console@1
name                     aliases
{0} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk@0:f File and args:
ERROR: boot-read fail
Can't open boot device
Any ideas? Should I try burning the DVD again in a different system?

Tried with a CD and another DVD burned in a windows laptop, same result...
Suspecting on the DVD/USB module:
{0} ok probe-scsi-all
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@2/scsi@0
MPT Version 1.05, Firmware Version 1.27.00.00
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk    ATA    TOSHIBA MQ01ABD01U      625142448 Blocks, 320 GB
SATA device PhyNum 0
Target 1
Unit 0 Disk    ATA    TOSHIBA MQ01ABD01U      625142448 Blocks, 320 GB
SATA device PhyNum 1
/pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device    TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-T632ASR03
{0} ok boot /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2 File and args:
ERROR: boot-read fail
Boot load failed
{0} ok boot cdrom2
ChassisSerialNumber BEL0923B98
SPARC Enterprise T5120, No Keyboard
Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.29.1, 16256 MB memory available, Serial #88050686.
Ethernet address 0:21:28:3f:8b:fe, Host ID: 853f8bfe.
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk File and args:
ERROR: boot-read fail
Evaluating:
Can't open boot device
{0} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /pci@0/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/pci@1/pci@0/usb@0,2/storage@2/disk@0:f File and args:
ERROR: boot-read fail
Can't open boot device

Burning CD for Solaris 10 x86

am in the process if installing Solaris 10 on the Intel platfrom. I downloaded all 4 files sol-10-GA-x86-v[1-4]-iso.iso and burned them onto CDs. The first CD worked fine and most of the OS is installed. Then I got prompted for the second CD. when the CD was inserted, I got the following error "The disk you inserted is not the correct CD/DVD for Solaris 10 Software 2 for x86 Platforms". When I checked the disk volume name, it got truncated from "sol-10-GA-x86-v2-iso" to "sol-10-GA-x86-v2". How can I recover from this problem? I also noticed that my SPARC Solaris 9 CDs contain a file named _VOLUME, which cantains the disk label information. Should I have added the file to the CD along with the iso image? <br />

I had no problems with the installation, perhaps you have to burn a new CD with the unzipped CD-image.
The correct volume name should be: sol_10_106_x86_2
there is a .volume.inf file, containing
VI"SOL_10_106_X86_2"
Regards,
Fabian

Issue burning Solaris 10 installation CD�s

Dear all,
I downloaded Solaris 10 1/06 installation-CD�s 1-5 from sun hp.
I extracted all 5 CD�s with winzip
I�m not able to burn any of these CD�s because the image-file cannot be identified by the burners I used (Nero, Ulead) in Windows XP.
Any help would be much appreciated.
thx & rgds,
Jochen

if the 5 files you downloaded are named:
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d
sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e
its a DVD ISO split to 5 parts.
For windows open run and type cmd, go the the folder that contains the 5 files then type "copy /b sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a + sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b + sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c + sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d + sol-10-u3-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e solaris.iso" without the quotes this wil copy the 5 files to one file named "solaris.iso"
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Rico0100

Is it possible to install Solaris 10 without burning it onto CDs?

December 16, 2006
Hai!
Have downloaded Solaris 10 OS, x86, for downloading onto WINDOWS ONLY Platform - Solaris 10 11/06 Operating System. They are Solaris 10 11/06 x86 CD 1 to CD5.
I don't have a CD writer or DVD writer to burn the software onto CDs and then install it. Kindly let me know if it is possible to install the software without burning it onto CDs.
Best Regards,
Kartheek D. N.

Without a jumpstart server you would need to burn the DVD or at least the first CD, then you'ld boot of the first CD and install the initial OS. Once the OS have rebooted after the first install, you can install the software available on the remaining four cd's by mounting them with "lofiadm", "mount" and running the installer on the CD-images.
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.7/M.

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Hi,
I have downloaded Sun Solaris 8 binaries. I have unzipped installable CD image using win zip 8.0. Only 1 file came out of that. But can I know how I burn the bootable CD using HP cd writer . What is there about ISO image. Should I have to rename the file to *.iso.
Please help

Hello,
Each zip contains 1 file. After unzipping the file, add a .iso extension to each one and run EZ CD Creator (The software that was included with your HP CD Writer). Select Create CD from Image in the FIle menu and select the .iso file. Once the images have been burned, they become bootable. For more info:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/download.html
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Allen
Sun Developer Support

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Having troubles installing Solaris 8 (Intel Platform) on a Gateway PC (PIII 733 MHz, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB HD). Seems no matter what I do, using web start or using interactive install, the screen goes all white and the system hangs just after the following information is displayed during the boot process:
SunOS Release 5.8 Version Generic-xxxxxxx 32-bit
Copyright 1983-2000 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Then next thing displayed is a cursor flashing in the upper left corner of the screen with the entire screen being white. I never get the next line as indicated in the install docs ("Configuring /dev and /devices").
I have tried using DOS fdisk to create a 24 MB partition set active and formatted. That seems to work fine to boot into DOS, but I can't seem to get past this part of the install.
Any suggestions?
...Steve

Just an idea:
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these patches the machine was running without problem.
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no USB peripherals connected, so the USB IRQ was disabled in the
BIOS (in an
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solaris 8 USB drivers had detected the USB bus and started scanning
for devices there; and that hung the machine due to non working USB controller IRQs.
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I can't even run HelloWorld. I see:
# HotSpot Virtual Machine Error, Internal Error
# Please report this error at
# http://java.sun.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
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# Error ID: 554E534146450E4350500263 FF
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I was forced to link
jre/lib/sparcv9/libjvm.so --> ./server/libjvm.so
because there is no "client" directory where the link
is set in the ordinary (lib/sparc) directory.

Followup:
What kernel / Jumbo patch level is required to run
the 64-bit jvm? I suspect that we are using a much-to-old version, but I would like this suspicion verified.
thanks,
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