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 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > install-discuss mailing list > install-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/install-discuss >
