Randall Q. Huxley III wrote:
> Hi Moinak,
>
> I will be happy to try making a new CD to get Solaris installed.
>
> But I have no experience with Solaris so it is best if I do this procedure 
> under BSD or Linux. I didn't find the lofiadm command so I am not sure what 
> it is.
>   

   The steps I mentioned need to be done on a Solaris box. You can do
   the similar steps on a Linux box but the instructions change a little
   eg. instead of lofiadm you need to use the "mount -o loop ..." variant.

> What of patching the iso directly? In my work we have tools to update 
> binaries in place. You mentioned this string "multiboot = LOAD ?RWX 
> V0x40fff00 P0x40fff00 A0x1000;" Can we change this in the ISO or are these 
> values used in the compilation to generate values in many places? Maybe if 
> it's just a table we can update the entries.
>   

   Can be quite tricky to get right. In addition you have to replace a
   whole binary *not* patch it. The above mapfile changes are effective
   only during compile time and the adresses in the multiboot binary
   are generated based on this value.

> If this idea doesn't work I would like to gratefully accept your offer to try 
> a new ISO CD but I may have a few questions because I'm not expert in this.
>   

   I can provide you a modified multiboot binary which you can include
   into the new DVD image that you will have to generate.

Regards,
Moinak.

> Thank you very much,
> Rand
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