
Solaris Operating System - Download & DVD/CD Burning Instructions Because the Solaris 10 Operating System is an OS and large in size (up to 4GB per platform), Sun is offering the Solaris images as compressed ISO images. Once downloaded, you can use these images to create bootable media that you then use to install the Solaris 10 Operating System on one or several computer systems. Using a DVD is the easiest: you only have to create one disk, and you can perform the entire installation using a single DVD, rather than 5 CDs. Solaris 10 DVD Instructions Even though your DVD downloads will be combined into a single.iso image, Sun has broken the Solaris 10 DVD image into several segments because many utilities found on the Internet do not function properly with files that exceed 2GB in size, and a DVD image can be much larger than that, even after compression. If you download the Solaris 10 Operating System for x86 onto a Windows system, a new option is available to you, marked 'download onto Windows Only.'
These files are highly compressed with the NOSSO(R) file optimization program. These self-extracting files work only on the following Windows platforms: Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows NT4.0 SP 6, Windows 2000, Windows 2003 Server, and Windows XP. For Windows 98SE, ME, and NT, there are minimum RAM requirements: 128MB minimum for CD images and 256MB minimum for DVD images. (If your system does not meet these requirements, please download the 'all platforms' versions in '.zip' format instead.) Once you have downloaded all segments, click on the first segment and the software will reconstruct the DVD image for you.
To reconstitute the full DVD image using the 'all platforms' option: • download all the segments for the platform of your choice, • unzip the individual files, • concatenate the files into a single.iso file When downloading onto a UNIX platform: Using the UNIX cat command, concatenate the files in the correct order, into a single file named: 'sol-10-GA-x86-dvd.iso' for x86, or 'sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso' for SPARC. Note: The correct syntax for the cat command is: ' cat file1 file2. [fileN] > file' where file1, file2, fileN are the download images and 'file' is the.iso file you are creating. So for example, to create the ISO image for the Solaris 10 6/06 DVD for SPARC, type: cat sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-d sol-10-u2-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso The result is a true ISO image that you can use to burn a DVD.
Jan 14, 2007 - I remember getting Solaris 8 iso images from them almost 5 years ago. 6/06 Solaris 10 Operating System (SPARC DVD). Since Solaris 10 and Sun Studio 11 have been available as free downloads for quite some time.
The five segments you downloaded separately will not work until they are concatenated as described. When downloading onto a Windows system and you did not select the 'download onto Windows only' option, concatenate the files using this command at the command prompt (MS-DOS prompt): copy /b file1 + file2 [+ fileN] filename.iso (file1 through fileN are the images that were downloaded.) All files should be concatenated into a single file named: 'sol-10-GA-x86-dvd.iso' for x86, or 'sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso' for SPARC. Once the copy is complete, you should have one image ready to be burned to a DVD. 