> I burned a cd and I get: > Bad magic number in disk label > Can't open disk label package > > Any ideas?
AFAIK, 2008.11 doesn't support SPARC, last I saw was that slipped to next release. You can still download Solaris Express Community Edition, which usually gets updated about every two weeks; see http://opensolaris.org/os/downloads/ It has a lot of the same stuff, plus some of the non-open stuff. It does _not_ have the new installer, new packaging system (repository-based), nor some of the other changes to make things more familiar to Linux users, nor perhaps a few other changes that for whatever reason haven't made it to the "mainstream" yet. But it's still where a lot of the development (repackaging aside) is done, AFAIK. Unfortunately, updates are usually via re-install (or some limited methods used by the developers), but assuming LiveUpgrade is still in there and works, with zfs root (esp. with no zones), that's not anywhere near as bad as it sounds; you can do most of it while running normally, and then just do an init 6 to reboot to the new boot environment, and fall back to the old one if it doesn't work out. That of course does mean you've got to have a fair bit of free space. Instructions on how to do all that are out there somewhere...when it works, it's pretty easy. So you're probably trying to boot an x86 CD on SPARC, which won't work. Granted that the error message isn't particularly helpful, as it would probably be the same for a whole lot of other CD-ROMs that wouldn't boot. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
