Download Solaris 8 ISO files???
Terry
Can someone point the web links to download the ISO CD Image
files for Solaris 8 installation on intel machines. I downloaded
the "sol-8-10_00-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml" such files and they don't
appear to be the ISO files. Thanks in advance for your help,
Terry
Igor Sobrado
You cannot get these ISO (probably Rock Ridge) images legally
at present, but you can request your software media and an
unlimited number of licensed for $75.00 USD + shipping/handling.
Hope this helps,
Igor.
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Juergen Keil
> Terry <javas...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Can someone point the web links to download the ISO CD Image
> > files for Solaris 8 installation on intel machines. I downloaded
> > the "sol-8-10_00-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml" such files and they don't
> > appear to be the ISO files. Thanks in advance for your help,
>
> You cannot get these ISO (probably Rock Ridge) images legally
> at present, but you can request your software media and an
> unlimited number of licensed for $75.00 USD + shipping/handling.
Well, things have changed (since yesterday?) ...
If you want to, you *can* download the contents of the Solaris 8 10/00
mediakit now. Apparently the download even includes printable CD
labels :-) Check:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
(800 Mbyte minimum download, ~ 2GB (?) for the complete solaris 8
download. Probably without staroffice, the companion CD, netscape
and oracle stuff - these can be downloaded from other web sites)
Igor Sobrado
> If you want to, you *can* download the contents of the Solaris 8 10/00
> mediakit now. Apparently the download even includes printable CD
> labels :-) Check:
> http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
> (800 Mbyte minimum download, ~ 2GB (?) for the complete solaris 8
> download. Probably without staroffice, the companion CD, netscape
> and oracle stuff - these can be downloaded from other web sites)
Really good news! I probably will try in my Omnibook 4100 (I have
a lot of problems installing Solaris 8 06/00 on it at present).
By the way, can be the Software Companion CD be downloaded or only
the individual packages available from Sunfreeware?
Terry
Juergen,
I downloaded "sol-8-10_00-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml"
from http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html.
It was a zipped file. After unzipping it, what should I do?
Should I write the whole file onto a CD? It doesn't look
like a ISO image file. I tried adding .iso to the file
and write it on CD, didn't seem to work. Any suggestions?
Thanks a lot for your help,
Terry
Juergen Keil
> Really good news! I probably will try in my Omnibook 4100 (I have
> a lot of problems installing Solaris 8 06/00 on it at present).
> By the way, can be the Software Companion CD be downloaded or only
> the individual packages available from Sunfreeware?
AFAIKT, the contents of the march 2000 (?) version is available at
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/downloads/indexWeb.html
(repackaged as self installing "WebStart" java class)
Chris
I have 06/00 Solaris 8 x86. and i just download the 3 CD image of 10/00
Solaris 8 x86. Can i use them with my 06/00 companion CD?
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Igor Sobrado
> AFAIKT, the contents of the march 2000 (?) version is available at
I suppose that the march 2000 release of Solaris 8 (the first release
available of Solaris 8) is available for download because it is the
release supported for "Solaris Source Foundation" developers.
Not sure if we can write about these matters in these newsgroups
(see the Solaris Source Foundation Release license agreement).
Igor Sobrado
> I have 06/00 Solaris 8 x86. and i just download the 3 CD image of 10/00
> Solaris 8 x86. Can i use them with my 06/00 companion CD?
Probably you can. Solaris 8 06/00 Companion CD do not includes stuff
like Gnome but the software provided should work in a release that
is the same Solaris version with some patches and enhancements.
Best regards,
James McGovern
the Companion CD)?
-James
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Igor Sobrado
> Is there anywhere on Sun's site that I can get Gnome or KDE (the builds from
> the Companion CD)?
Hi, James.
I think you cannot get the stuff provided with the Companion CD. This
useful cdrom is provided with the Solaris 8 media as a value-added
package for people that buy Solaris. You will probably need to buy a
new software media (but I cannot say nothing about Sun, in fact they
are offering StarOffice for free when it was a commercial product and
now even ISO images of Solaris 8! When the WorkShop C compiler as part
of Solaris?).
You can try to get precompiled binaries for Solaris 8 from either
the Gnome project homepage (http://www.gnome.org/, but at present
they only offer binaries for UltraSparc architectures) or Sunfreeware
if available (I think that now it is not available for download).
In any case, you can build it from source.
Hope this helps,
Daniel Chee
machines though right?
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Dave
will create a file with the same name as the file you downloaded but without
the .zip extension. That file is a CD image (up to 650 Mbytes); make sure
you have space on your hard drive. Then, create a CD from these images using
your favorite CD creation software. Depending on the software package you
use, you will have to rename the file first to have an extension the
software recognizes as a CD image. For example, if you use Easy CD Creator,
add the extension .iso to the file name. Next, from the File Menu in the
program, select Create CD from CD image. Then, select that image file.
This should do it, right?
Dave
"Terry" <javas...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Igor Sobrado
> I still do need to download the Device Configuration Assistant for Intel
> machines though right?
You do not need to download that diskette but you can. If you have a
bootable cdrom drive (it depends on the BIOS and it is supported since
1998) you can use the cdroms you have build to boot without a floppy.
I suppose that the ISO images have El Torito extensions to make the
operating system bootable without the DCA diskette but I have not tried it.
Daniel Chee
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Ferry Schuller
drive is not able to boot :-(
Igor Sobrado
> where can i download the Device Configuration Assistant for Intel my cdrom
> drive is not able to boot :-(
It is easy to answer and, in fact, it has been asked a lot of times
in these newsgroups:
http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/dca_diskettes/
Best regards,
Ferry Schuller
i get the error "no dump device configured" after the install after the
install loaded the kernel i think the install in not able to
write on my harddrive any idea!
ve...@my-deja.com
website, burned the first three CDs with WinOnCD.
The Software CDs are okay, but the installation
CD is not bootable and the filesystem seems to be
broken. It only shows ~96k of data and nothing
more... Does anybody have clue how to burn a
working installation CD?
Thanks, for your help
Lajos
In article <H33f6.51148
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ve...@my-deja.com
(installation-cd, software-cd 1 and 2), I burned them with WinOnCD on
three CDR. The two software cds look good, but unfortunatly the
installation cd is broken. The filesystem is broken, it show only ~96k
data under windows and nothing more... and it is not bootable, after
the blue boot screen it turns grey and the second stages bootlader
hangs...
Does anyone have a clue, what could be the problem?
Thanks for your help,
Lajos
In article <H33f6.51148$R5.25...@news1.frmt1.sfba.home.com>,
Alan Coopersmith
|Well I followed the instructions from Sun's
|website, burned the first three CDs with WinOnCD.
|The Software CDs are okay, but the installation
|CD is not bootable and the filesystem seems to be
|broken. It only shows ~96k of data and nothing
|more... Does anybody have clue how to burn a
|working installation CD?
If you check previous postings to this newsgroup, you'll find many
people convinced that not even Sun has figured out how to produce a
working Installation CD, and that you should just toss it out and
start from the "Disk 1 of 2" CD.
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Working for, but definitely not speaking for, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Igor Sobrado
> i get the error "no dump device configured" after the install after the
> install loaded the kernel i think the install in not able to
> write on my harddrive any idea!
I am sorry, but I cannot help you. I looked for that message
in the "Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide"
(Part No. 806-1075-10) without any luck. I recommend you
to check all the steps in the installation process. Perhaps
someone with more knowledge in Solaris can help you.
Ferry Schuller
I found something that the install can not be bigger then 1,9 gb
and my disk is 4.3gb i will try if a smaller disk will work tonight!
i let you know if it work! with a smaller disk
thanks for the help.
Igor Sobrado
> Thanks, I managed to boot from the first Software CD. Now only my video
> card (GeForce2 MX) is causing some problems, but it was possible to
> install the system with the standard VGA XServer...
Now you can try to install XFree86 (but you will need to check the
list of supported hardware). Check too the last Solaris updates.
Some patches add support for new hardware. It worked for me with
my unsupported NeoMagic NM2160 chipset.
Hope this helps,
Igor Sobrado
> what is the path on the cd i've only got the two install cd's
What install CDs? If you have got the iSO images from Sun Microsystem
you probably will have three cd-roms (the INSTALLATION cdrom and both
the Solaris 8 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 cdroms). Both the INSTALLATION cdrom
and the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 are supposed to be bootable. If not,
you can try to boot from the DCA diskette.
If you have the commercial version you will have a lot of cdroms
not included in the downloadable release (the European and Asian
documentation cdroms, the useful Bonus Software, StarOffice, Oracle,
etc...).
Try booting from the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2. If it not works (?)
try booting from the INSTALLATION cdrom and, at last, from the DCA
diskette. Not sure what is the recommended way (sure that Solaris 8
Software 1 of 2 is the preferred way but I cannot say if it is
better to boot from the diskette or directly from the cdrom). If
your BIOS do not supports bootable cdroms try (1) to upgrade your
BIOS release, (2) to boot from the DCA diskette.
> Igor you are great man thanks for al your time it looks i'm a silly
> solaris user but believe me i'm not the worse
No in both cases! I am not a great man, a lot of people help me much
more last months that I am helping you now. And you are not a silly
Solaris user, you are starting with this new operating system. Some
weeks ago I had the same problem (I learned recently how to install
the Solaris operating system from the INSTALLATION cdrom instead of
the Solaris 8 Software cdrom) and I had some problems that probably
sounds silly but that really stopped me some days (by the way, I am
not sure how these problems go away yet).
Best regards,
Daniel Chee
DSL went dead for a couple of days there. Anyways, there doesn't seem to be
a limit on how big a drive can be for installing Solaris. My 7 installation
went on a 30GB IDE fine. I was going to install 8 on another machine with a
9GB SCSI, but the downloaded images I have are bad.
Igor, I was wondering if you know how to configure sendmail. I'm having a
hard time configuring it to relay from my internal machines to the outside
world. Thanks.
Daniel
"Igor Sobrado" <sob...@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> wrote in message
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Igor Sobrado
> Hi Igor and Ferry,
> DSL went dead for a couple of days there. Anyways, there doesn't seem to be
> a limit on how big a drive can be for installing Solaris. My 7 installation
> went on a 30GB IDE fine. I was going to install 8 on another machine with a
> 9GB SCSI, but the downloaded images I have are bad.
Hi, Daniel!
SCSI hard disks has not a limit in size (at least I do not know it),
IDE hard disks can fail (if it has been not patched yet) with HDD
greater than ~36-40 Gb (I think that the limit is -was- 38 Mb). With
disks smaller than 30 Gb you will have not problems installing Solaris.
Hard disks greater than 8 Gb was supported with Solaris 2.5.1 with
the Driver Update 11 installed.
> Igor, I was wondering if you know how to configure sendmail. I'm having a
> hard time configuring it to relay from my internal machines to the outside
> world. Thanks.
I do not know a lot about sendmail, but I can say you that you can
edit /etc/mail/sendmail.cf to change the DS register to look some
like 'DSrelay.yourcompany.com'. It will define the smtp server that
will be used by sendmail. Check too that you have a MX register
in the local DNS.
Hope this helps!
Igor Sobrado
Obviously, I wanted to say 38 Gb!
>> Igor, I was wondering if you know how to configure sendmail. I'm having a
>> hard time configuring it to relay from my internal machines to the outside
>> world. Thanks.
Not sure about the last answer to this question. I wrote that you
can define a DS register to give information about the relay host
to the MTA and I wrote too that the host that will receive mail
requires a MX register in the DNS.
I don't know if it was exactly what you was looking for. If the
problem is related with the internal hosts in your subnet, and
not with the Solaris host itself you probably are looking for
an implementation of a protocol like POP3 or IMAP.
Can you explain what is your problem? It is related with the
Solaris host (it cannot send e-mails because it do not knows
what relay host should use) or it is related with the network
workstations (the internal workstation cannot send e-mails
through the Solaris host)?
Best regards,
Felix Chung
@yahoo.com says...
> Hi,
>
> Can someone point the web links to download the ISO CD Image
> files for Solaris 8 installation on intel machines. I downloaded
> the "sol-8-10_00-install-fcs-bin-ia-ml" such files and they don't
> appear to be the ISO files. Thanks in advance for your help,
>
>
The web page says that those are iso files. You need to add
the extension .iso when you burn the cd.
Felix
Felix Chung
@yahoo.com says...
If using ezcd you need to go to files/create cd from image.
Felix
Jeremy
:-)
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Uwe Kiewel
>If using ezcd you need to go to files/create cd from image.
xcdroast works fine, too
uwe