Sun Sparcstation 5 Solaris 8 Oracle 8i EE download - 817solaris.cpio.gz

Question

Hi,
I'm new to the Solaris environment, although I had installed Oracle on Linux. I downloaded the above file, copied it to the Sun's 9G hard drive, made sure it had 128 MB of RAM. According to the download pages, I ran the following command:
gunzip 817sol~1.gz; cat 817sol~1 | cpio -icd
The filename was altered because I downloaded it on a Windows PC. After about 15 minutes (it's a slow Sunbox), I ended up with a single large executable.
In my past experience, I had a folder to work with, with the shell scripts and Universal installer executables. This time, I just had one executable, and when I tried running it, I got an error message "can't execute". I set up an Oracle account, logged in, tried again, still won't run.
What am I doing wrong? The documentation Oracle provides assumes you have the 2 CD set, not the download.
I am a Windows Network Admin, I am experienced, and I know a little about Linux. If you have an answer, please post or write me at [email protected] Your help would be extremely appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

first rename the downloaded file to 817solaries.cpio.gz thru mv command
then execute this
gunzip 817solaries.cpio.gz; cat 817solaries.cpio | cpio -icd
this will unzip your file into Disk1 directory then change directory to Disk1 and execute runInstaller from there