> I have 06/00 Solaris 8 x86. And i just download the 3 CD image of 10/00 > Solaris 8 x86. Can i use them with my 06/00 companion CD? Probably you can. Solaris 8 06/00 Companion CD do not includes stuff like Gnome but the software provided should work in a release that is the same Solaris version with some patches and enhancements. Best regards. This torrent is for the DVD ISO image for the Sun Solaris 10 x86 October 2008 GA release, which was just released to the public near the beginning of November 2008. This is the FULL operating system on a bootable DVD (install DVD, not live DVD).
![Solaris Solaris](/uploads/1/2/5/4/125448905/924097704.jpg)
As an adjunct to the, a slightly customized boot environment capable of enabling serial console kernel debugging was required to diagnose Solaris install problems. The post itself mentioned that a nice way to accomplish this was to set up PXE network boot via. It is indeed flexible and enables one to experiment with modifications and quickly test whether they perform as expected.
The one downside to this environment is that an additional DHCP/TFTP boot server has to be configured. To eliminate that service, you could, once the customizations are well understood, simply create a new version of the Solaris install DVD with your customizations. Let's run through the process for a simple example. Get a Solaris DVD. For this example, we'll use an interim build of the upcoming Solaris 10 Update 5.
Extract the the entire contents of the DVD. # lofiadm -a /export/iso/s10xu5b10dvd.iso /dev/lofi/1 # mkdir -p /iso # mount -r -F hsfs /dev/lofi/1 /iso # cd /iso # mkdir /export/modified-s10xu5b10 # find.depth -print cpio -pudm /export/modified-s10xu5b blocks 3. Modify the content contained in /export/modified-s10xu5b10. In this case, we'll change the boot/grub/menu.lst file found in this directory to look like: # #pragma ident '@(#)installmenu 1.1 05/09/01 SMI' # default=0 timeout=30 serial -unit=0 -speed=9600 terminal serial title Solaris Serial Console ttya kernel /boot/multiboot kernel/unix -B installmedia=cdrom,console=ttya module /boot/x86.miniroot 4. Issue the following magic incantation to create a bootable ISO image based on the contents of the /export/modified-s10xu5b10 directory. # mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load-size 4 -R -L -r -D -U -joliet-long -max-iso9660-filenames -boot-info-table -o /export/iso/modified-s10xu5b10.iso /export/modified-s10xu5b10.
Size of boot image is 4 sectors - No emulation 1.80% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 2.25% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 2.70% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 3.15% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15. 98.43% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 98.88% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 99.33% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: 99.78% done, estimate finish Fri Apr 18 15: Total translation table size: 2048 Total rockridge attributes bytes: 3075577 Total directory bytes: 18921472 Path table size(bytes): 148014 Max brk space used 1b471 extents written (2172 MB) Voila! Acknowledgements to Tom Haynes and this which served as an excellent guide.
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