How to create a bootable solaris 8 CD for custom jump start?
I am presently trying to use mkisofs which comes with solaris 8 cd. I am
not able to find -sparc -boot option in my mkisofs
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by slkuma » Sun, 15 Sep 2002 22:25:42
How to create a bootable solaris 8 CD for custom jump start?
I am presently trying to use mkisofs which comes with solaris 8 cd. I am
not able to find -sparc -boot option in my mkisofs
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by Joerg Schilli » Mon, 16 Sep 2002 02:23:17
>How to create a bootable solaris 8 CD for custom jump start?
>I am presently trying to use mkisofs which comes with solaris 8 cd. I am
>not able to find -sparc -boot option in my mkisofs
For unknown reasons, Sun decided not to include a recent official mkisofs
on Solaris 8 but instead grabbed an outdated version used by Red Hat at this time.
As a result of this decision, /usr/bin/mkisofs on Solaris 8 is buggy and
2 years behind the time. Just get a recent source and compile it.....
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1. Creating bootable solaris CD-ROM with extra packages
We would like to be able to create a bootable solaris cdrom with a
number of additional (ours) packages on it.
This is for a field service guy to run around the country installing
upgrades on a number of machines.
I have a pretty good idea of the layout of a bootable cdrom, but there
are some details that I am not clear on.
1. To be able to boot, Sun CD-ROM drives must be able to handle 512
byte sectors. So I would assume that the cdrom I create must use 512
byte sectors. Is it true that only the boot track must be 512 byte
sectors, or is the entire solaris cd 512 byte sectors?
2. Which cd *writers* support these 512 byte sectors?
3. How are the separate filesystems on the cd created? Are they
separate sessions? something else?
4. Assuming we do this by duplicating solaris cd's we have
legitimately bought, should we expect to be visited by some big nasty
Sun lawyers? (or worse -- small, nasty Sun lawyers?)
Kind regards,
Larry
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