by Russell Ki » Wed, 07 Jan 2004 19:16:37
I have the Solaris 9 Sparc Media Kit and would like to make a backup
of the Installation CDs.
With the previous Media Kits (Solaris 7 and 8).. we made backups using
Nero but since Solaris 9 is distributed on DVDs.. Nero does not
recognise the Sol. 9 Installation DVDs.
- What is the best way to make a backup of the Solaris 9 DVDs?
I thought of using 'dd' and then burning the image but don't have the
hardware at the moment. Any suggestions would be great.
Russ.
by Lars Tunkra » Wed, 07 Jan 2004 23:59:06
> I have the Solaris 9 Sparc Media Kit and would like to make a backup
> of the Installation CDs.
> With the previous Media Kits (Solaris 7 and 8).. we made backups using
> Nero but since Solaris 9 is distributed on DVDs.. Nero does not
> recognise the Sol. 9 Installation DVDs.
> - What is the best way to make a backup of the Solaris 9 DVDs?
> I thought of using 'dd' and then burning the image but don't have the
> hardware at the moment. Any suggestions would be great.
> Russ.
Buy another Mediakit ,
or
Setup a Jumpstart server using the S9 DVD and then
backup the /jumpstart and /tftpboot directories to tape
//Lars
by Doug McIntyr » Thu, 08 Jan 2004 01:54:42
by Gerry Sinkiewic » Thu, 08 Jan 2004 11:21:43
> >With the previous Media Kits (Solaris 7 and 8).. we made backups using
> >Nero but since Solaris 9 is distributed on DVDs.. Nero does not
> >recognise the Sol. 9 Installation DVDs.
> >- What is the best way to make a backup of the Solaris 9 DVDs?
> >I thought of using 'dd' and then burning the image but don't have the
> >hardware at the moment. Any suggestions would be great.
> Use dd to suck in the disc, and burn out the ISO to DVD recordable media.
> If you don't have a recorder, then buy another media kit. Or buy the
> media kit with the CDs instead of the DVD and back up the CDs if you
> want backups of them. My Solaris 9 media-kit came with both a DVD and
> CDs, but that was a while ago for the FCS version. Don't know what
> they have now.
The Media kits for both Solaris 9 Sparc and Solaris 9 x86 came with a full
collection of CDs
so you really don't need a backup of the DVD (at least mine did) and I
believe they still do.
Anyway since I used a DVD-RW, I can just erase the thing if I find someday
that it does not
work and use the original.
by Joerg Schilli » Thu, 08 Jan 2004 18:57:09
>With the previous Media Kits (Solaris 7 and 8).. we made backups using
>Nero but since Solaris 9 is distributed on DVDs.. Nero does not
>recognise the Sol. 9 Installation DVDs.
>- What is the best way to make a backup of the Solaris 9 DVDs?
>I thought of using 'dd' and then burning the image but don't have the
>hardware at the moment. Any suggestions would be great.
As the latest cdrtools include volmgr support, you may e,g, run:
readcd dev=cdrom0 f=somefile
--> eject media
--> insert a blank DVD-R media
cdrecord-ProDVD dev=cdrom0 -v -dao somefile
But stop, the Solaris 9 12/03 boxes don't seem to include a DVD.
Does anybody know the reason why there is no DVD anymore?
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by Beard » Thu, 08 Jan 2004 22:19:17
> Does anybody know the reason why there is no DVD anymore?
The box however does state that the media for the S9 OE and Java
Enterprise System is *either* CD or DVD. Anyone received a DVD media pack?
by Rich Tee » Fri, 09 Jan 2004 02:21:45
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by Andr » Fri, 09 Jan 2004 08:42:16
The only time I've used a Solaris DVD has been for Solaris x86 installs,
and even then it really doesn't save that much time over a CD install.
Frankly, I think Sun should s*the stupid "Webstart Installation" CD
and give us something more useful, like a CD with PatchPro, Jet, JASS,
Gridengine and all the other stuff that one normally would download.
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by CJT » Fri, 09 Jan 2004 10:35:56
>>That's a bit daft: customers may have (say) a CD drive now,
>>but plan to get a DVD drive soon (or they may have both
>>types of machine, and haven't got around to setting up a
>>JUmpStart installation server). I can't imagine the extra
>>cost of a DVD being prohibitive...
> I know I've never actually had a DVD drive in the machine I've used as
> the JumpStart server. This is because it tends to be an older machine,
> like the Ultra-2 on my desk at home or the SB150 at work.
> The only time I've used a Solaris DVD has been for Solaris x86 installs,
> and even then it really doesn't save that much time over a CD install.
> Frankly, I think Sun should s*the stupid "Webstart Installation" CD
> and give us something more useful, like a CD with PatchPro, Jet, JASS,
> Gridengine and all the other stuff that one normally would download.
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1. APC USB ups, Back-UPS ES series, 2.5.68
(Please cc: me on reply)
I'm wanting to get this new toy up and running. I've installed apcupsd,
but it doesn't want to work well with my kernel (2.5.68) or somewhat.
When apcupsd tries to open the hiddev, open() gets an ENODEV. Is
apcupsd doing something wrong or is 2.5.68 doing something wrong?
~# dmesg
hub 1-0:0: debounce: port 1: delay 100ms stable 4 status 0x301
hub 1-0:0: new USB device on port 1, assigned address 4
usb 1-1: new device strings: Mfr=3, Product=1, SerialNumber=2
usb 1-1: Product: Back-UPS ES 350 FW:800.e3.D USB FW:e3
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: APC
usb 1-1: SerialNumber: AB0238241677
usb 1-1: usb_new_device - registering interface 1-1:0
hid 1-1:0: usb_device_probe
hid 1-1:0: usb_device_probe - got id
drivers/usb/core/file.c: asking for 1 minors, starting at 96
drivers/usb/core/file.c: found a minor chunk free, starting at 96
hiddev96: USB HID v1.10 Device [APC Back-UPS ES 350 FW:800.e3.D USB
FW:e3] on usb-00:07.2-1
~# ls -l /dev/usb/hid
total 0
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 180, 192 Dec 31 1969 hiddev96
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 180, 193 Dec 31 1969 hiddev97
~# strace -f apcupsd (trimmed)
[...]
open("/dev/usb/hid/hiddev95", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/dev/usb/hid/hiddev96", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
open("/dev/usb/hid/hiddev97", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENODEV (No such device)
open("/dev/usb/hid/hiddev98", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
write(2, "Couldn\'t find UPS device or no p"..., 43Couldn't find UPS
device or no permission.
) = 43
_exit(1) = ?
ref: http://www.sibbald.com/apcupsd/manual/usb.html
apcupsd version: 3.10.5
Linux kernel: 2.5.68
David
p.s. apcupsd needs patched to handle hiddev from 96 on (minor allocated by kernel)
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