Flarcreate from booted DVD

Hi,
I wanted to make a flash image of the latest release, but the box I was on has an older version. The documentation says you can create a flar booted from the install DVD, but it doesn't work. I booted single user on the Solaris 10 5/08 DVD, mounted a remote filesystem on /mnt, and did :
# flarcreate -n sol_10_sparc_5-08 /mnt/sol_10_sparc_5-08.flar
Full Flash
Checking integrity...
ERROR: fdo: Cannot open contents file: //var/sadm/install/contents
ERROR: Integrity check failed.
how do I make a flash archive from the DVD?

use -R <root>. i think this is probably not what you want from what ive read. what it sounds like you want is to almost do an upgrade to 05/08 via flarcreate, which i do not think is supported directly. you can use flarcreate to make a differential archive that you might use for for something like that.
your other option is to do an install of 10 05/08 on a blank disk and you could then flarcreate and image off that. man flarcreate, quite a few options and uses. seen quite a bit of blogs on creating a bootable recovery dvd that uses a flar image as well.
others may know of a way around this though...

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