Yiannis Mavroukakis wrote: > Mike Gerdts wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Yiannis <imavroukakis at gameaccount.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I've been, without success, trying to install OpenSolaris to an >>> Ultra10. So far I've tried two different optical drives, 3 different >>> types of CD/DVD media, low burning speeds, you name it.. and each >>> and every time I get the following error >>> >>> Bad magic number in disk label >>> Can't open disk label package. >>> >>> >> When you say OpenSolaris, what do you really mean? What is the name >> of the .iso file that you burned? If it is OpenSolaris 2008.05, that >> only supports the x86 architecture. >> >> > Sorry I mean 2008.05...How thick of me I didn't realise 2008.05 didn't > do Sparc..Is there anything > equivalent I can use?
Solaris 10 is available for free here: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp although it's not at the same level as OpenSolaris and still uses the traditional Solaris installer, you can certainly do tons of useful stuff with Solaris 10 as well! HTH Michael -- Michael Schuster http://blogs.sun.com/recursion Recursion, n.: see 'Recursion'
