Very Computer

Ok, so it is official....I should even be bothering with this stuff if
I can't even get the cds burnt..I am going CRAZY!!! with this thing.

I just got round to downloading the full images (all 3) from the sun
page onto a win me box. unzipped them using winzip and winrar
(different attempts same result) and found that the install image
burnt with Nero 5.5 first go, but the software disks keep*.

Same for Ezy cd creator 5.02 (314), cdrwin, discjuggler, fireburn.

All seem to run for the first couple of secs...enough to ruin the cd
and then hang.

I have tried extracting the files with winiso but it says that the
image contains multisessions and isn't supported....I actually got
that message when I was trying cdrwin,

I tried downloading software disk 1 again in separate files and
compiling to make the iso image to the same result.

The download has gone via IE (5.5) with a download assistant called
Freshfire v 4.60.

Does anyone know what is going on here please?

Thanks

Someone told me that the Solaris 8 i386 CDs lied about their size
when being copied and in fact you had to copy a bit beyond the
size the CD said... I have no idea how true this is... maybe Mr.
Schilling could comment.

A suggestion from a friend was to have the *.zip file in a directory with
another random file, select the other file in Explorer, then use the mouse
to select the *.zip file and double click it.  After the extraction, using
EZ CD creator, select "Create .iso..." (something like that) a choice that
is about halfway down the "File" dropdown.  The instructions are on the Sun
site, but that is what I did.

Quote:> Ok, so it is official....I should even be bothering with this stuff if
> I can't even get the cds burnt..I am going CRAZY!!! with this thing.

> I just got round to downloading the full images (all 3) from the sun
> page onto a win me box. unzipped them using winzip and winrar
> (different attempts same result) and found that the install image
> burnt with Nero 5.5 first go, but the software disks keep*.

> Same for Ezy cd creator 5.02 (314), cdrwin, discjuggler, fireburn.

> All seem to run for the first couple of secs...enough to ruin the cd
> and then hang.

> I have tried extracting the files with winiso but it says that the
> image contains multisessions and isn't supported....I actually got
> that message when I was trying cdrwin,

> I tried downloading software disk 1 again in separate files and
> compiling to make the iso image to the same result.

> The download has gone via IE (5.5) with a download assistant called
> Freshfire v 4.60.

> Does anyone know what is going on here please?

> Thanks

I found once when copying another OS's images that the only way to make
the image properly via EasyCD Creator was to double click on the image
file and let the program do the rest.  It never worked when I tried
running EasyCD first and then making a data disk.

Not sure if this helps

Henry