> On the inability to read the CD, I think Solaris tends to use a different > block size for CDs than most other systems do (I think they use 512 byte
ISTR that's a parameter of the *drive* not the media. ie. getting sunos or solaris to talk to an non-sun scsi cdrom drive was often tricky, especially older ones. (On the other hand, with the sparc 5 I just dredged up, with builtin cdrom, I popped in a jigdo-built sparc potato cdr, did "boot cdrom", and it worked fine [well, as much as potato/sparc ever does, I spent the next couple of days bludgeoning it into modernity, including arranging an RC bugfix to e2fsprogs, but that's beside the point])