> 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
I did not like that either but I took it verbatim from this : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/sun_studio_tools/sun_studio_11_tools/ I would rather just use star which is in the snv_48 release anyways. > > " /usr/bin/uncompress -c $HOME/sunstudio11-ii-20060829-sol-x86.tar.Z | > /bin/tar xvf - " thats a classic .. going to work every time or maybe with star PATH_TO_STAR/star -x -z file=$HOME/sunstudio11-ii-20060829-sol-x86.tar.Z and you're done > 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. Again I was trying to be consistent with this : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/on/#dvdassem > 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. People may transfer to a Windows box and the .iso extension will be recognized by popular software like the stuff from Adaptec. I just use cdrecord ... my own build and its under the CDDL ! > And that's how it should have been stated when splitting the complete iso > with "split", in advance. ah yes .. true Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
