[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> 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 ?
When you say "solaris cd", do you mean a CD readable on solaris, or
a bootable solaris cd?
Just about anything that creates the proper ISO image can make a CD
readable by solaris, mske sure you specify the proper long name
translation. For example, I use mkisofs with the following parameters:
mkisofs -J -a -f -l -L -R -r -T -V solaris-DATA-CD -v -o sun.raw sun
This creates an iso9660 image called sun.raw with the directory sun being the
root of the CD. "man mkisofs" for a description of the options, but quickly
this CD has long file names readable on windows and solaris (and linux).
If you are talking about copying a solaris bootable cd, I have found
that most CD copying systems work. I use "CD roast" (xcdroast) to
copy the image to disk and then cdrecord to write it (on linux).
This works on RH 4.2 and 6.1.
Building your own bootable CD rom for the SUN SPARC is possible,
but almost undocumented. If memory serves, it's documented in the
Open BSD docs.
Note that only SPARC SUNs boot from CD-ROMs (the 680x0 SUN 3's and 2's can be
coaxed to do it, but boot CDs are almost impossible to find). If your sun does
not support the "boot cdrom" command, the CD ROM drive must be physicaly
set to 512 cbyte sectors. SUNs that support the boot CD-ROM command
can boot from CD ROM drives that switch into 512 byte block mode, such
as most Toshibas, Apple CD-300 (but not CD-300 plus), most Sony's,
NO!! NEC's, etc.
The CD-ROM drive must be set to device SCSI 6. Red Hat linux SUN CD's
will also boot (and possibly others) , besides SUN solaris ones.
Geoff.
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