Problem with Solaris 8 CD Images

Question

I have downloaded the installation CD and the software 1 & 2 CD images. I unzipped all three and moved the resulting filenames to *.iso as stated in the download instructions. After using Easy CD Creator to burn the installation CD, the usual disk partitions aren't on the disk. "Boot" is a soft link to "../s0" which doesn't exist. It's obvious when looking at the CD there's a boatload of data on it, but it isn't accessible. Any one else experience this, and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

Most of the data is only accessable from solaris. There's only a
small 170KByte ISO9660 filesystem on the solaris installation CDROMs.
The rest is part of a big UFS filesystem in a separate slice.
The "Boot -> ../s0" soft link is OK, too.
I'd say try to boot from that CD. It looks good.
(And if your PC cannot boot from a CDROM drive, use the
DCA floppy for booting).
Solaris 8 (FCS) contents of "Installation" CDROM:
<pre>
% ls -l /cdrom/cdrom0/s2
total 218
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root other 5 Feb 15 2000 Boot -> ../s0
-r--r--r-- 1 root other 4895 Feb 15 2000 Copyright
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 55909 Feb 15 2000 add_install_client
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root other 16384 Feb 15 2000 addclient
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root other 6308 Feb 15 2000 addclient.ppc
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root other 16384 Feb 15 2000 addclient.sparc
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root other 6332 Feb 15 2000 addclient.x86
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root other 3452 Feb 15 2000 modify_install_server
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