On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> does anyone experience to burn Solaris OS CD using win/NT/98/2000 ?
> any suggestion(software/OS/hardware) how to burn Solaris CD will be
> welcome ?
I don't know what this has to do with Linux, but I remember one bit of
info you may need. there was something with the sector size needing to
be 0.5K instead of 2K for bootable CDs on SPARC machines, I don't know
what it means for the burner software. in any case, if you want to copy
a CD on a linux system (are you allowed to do that with Solaris? ok,
backup reasons, I'm sure), you dump the CD image:
dd < /dev/cdrom > slowaris.iso
(assuming the right CD devide is a symlink to cdrom)
then burn a new one:
cdrecord -v -dev=0,1,0 speed=8 slowaris.iso
\ \ depending on the speed of YOUR device.
\ \__ mine is 8x
\
\___ depending on the location of YOUR device on the
SCSI bus, man cdrecord to know what to put here.
if your burner is IDE, you will need SCSI emulation, from the kernel
config scripts (you may need a recompile for this feature, but
generally it comes as a module):
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI:
This will provide SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices,
and will allow you to use a SCSI device driver instead of a native
ATAPI driver.
This is useful if you have an ATAPI device for which no native
driver has been written (for example, an ATAPI PD-CD or CDR drive);
you can then use this emulation together with an appropriate SCSI
device driver. In order to do this, say Y here and to "SCSI support"
and "SCSI generic support", below. You must then provide the kernel
command line "hdx=scsi" (try "man bootparam" or see the
documentation of your boot loader (lilo or loadlin) about how to
pass options to the kernel at boot time) for devices if you want the
native EIDE sub-drivers to skip over the native support, so that
this SCSI emulation can be used instead. This is required for use of
CD-RW's.
If both this SCSI emulation and native ATAPI support are compiled
into the kernel, the native support will be used.
so you see, no need for Solaris or M$Windos...
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