Dennis Clarke wrote: >I wrote this update such that new users would be able to follow really simple >step by step instructions. > > http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0050/index.html > >Let me know if anything out of order is in there. > >Thanks. > > >
Your article is very good and certainly helpful to beginners. Maybe you should have the OpenSolaris wiki or site pointing to it. I think it cannot be improved very much. Only a few ideas: 0.) Not everyone might have (gnu-) gtar installed on her/his box, before upgrading to Solaris Express. Anyways, the following will always work not " /usr/sfw/bin/gtar -zxf $HOME/sunstudio11-ii-20060829-sol-x86.tar.Z " but rather " /usr/bin/uncompress -c $HOME/sunstudio11-ii-20060829-sol-x86.tar.Z | /bin/tar xvf - " 1.) |" cat file-a.iso file-b.iso file-c.iso file-d.iso file-e.iso > sxcr.iso " I assume, this was chosen (same or similar on Solaris download page) to make it clearer for newbies. I nevertheless suggest to offer the shorter alternative (maybe with a quick explanation) to the more advanced users: ||" cat file-?.iso > sxcr.iso " (or - depending on filenames ... )|| " cat file-*.iso > sxcr.iso " Yet another detail: The individual parts to be concatenated later on, normally never end in ".iso" but rather in "_iso". That's at least a good practice. And that's how it should have been stated when splitting the complete iso with "split", in advance. M. | _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
