andrew wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I wanted to use the latest image from genunix.org to >> install from. >> >> I've tried to burn the .iso a few times but it never >> works, I always get >> a disk read error. I don't know if my burner is dodgy >> or what. >> >> Rather than keep wasting CDs I thought I'd try the >> USB version instead, >> but that seems to just be a filesystem rather than a >> bootable image. I >> found a thread on install-discuss from last year >> where someone says you >> need a script to turn it into something bootable, but >> the link no longer >> works. >> >> Can anyone tell me >> >> a) If the .ISO files should be usable by just burning >> to CD >> b) How I use the USB image. > > The x86 / x64 iso image is bootable, the SPARC image is not (although it will > be soon). Assuming you are using the x86 / x64 image then you will need to > write the latest images to a DVD since they are too big to fit on a CD. You > can verify that there are no errors in the iso image you downloaded by > verifying the MD5 sum - there is a link to a file containing the MD5 sums of > the images listed along with the images themselves on genunix.org. There are > various tools to compute the MD5 sum of an file - on Windows you can use > fastsum (from fastsum.com). If the MD5 sum which you calculate matches the > MD5 sum in the file downloaded from genunix then you can be reasonably > certain that a disk you burn from the image will be OK. > > There is a chicken and egg problem with the USB image - it requires a working > OpenSolaris installation in order to run the usbcopy script (part of the SUNW > distro-const package). There is also a Windows tool that claims to be able to > write this image to a USB flash drive here: > http://devzone.sites.pid0.org/OpenSolaris/opensolaris-liveusb-creator but it > produce a working image on my system. > > Your best bet is therefore the iso image - but remember to verify then burn > it to a DVD rather than a CD. > > HTH > > Andrew.
Thanks for clearing this up. A couple of times I had errors when burning, but twice it ended with no errors, even writing to a CD. My server has no DVD drive, so I guess I'll need to do the USB version. I have a working OpenSolaris box, so it's no problem, I'll check out usbcopy. Thanks for your help. Cheers, Dunc _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
