ReAssembly Instructions for Solaris 10

[DJE007]

sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.inst
Re-Assembly Instructions for sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso


Required component files and md5 check sums:
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sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-a.zip 1acfdb660195315c4601a847bbe74e91
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-b.zip 14675308b655a02a14bd81791dd59a16
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-c.zip 4aacf120a4ad13edacb768730acf49ba
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-d.zip 8ab774b27cf4c2c04281c7cfd0b8bb72
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-e.zip da9f502e9fa3857876b3ea245cc355c8





Gather and unzip all required component files.

Then concatentate all unzipped files into one
single file named sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso.


The combined file should have an md5sum value of:

sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso d7b6f773519c1caaafb57100d428a0e3


REQUIREMENTS:

Operating System and utility support of large files (>2GB)


Anyone know what there talking about with "Then concatentate all unzipped files into one"

 

[xcript]

They want you to combine the files in order.

$ cat sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-* >sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso

Or under DOS/Windows:

> copy /b sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-* sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso

 

[n0cmonkey]

Seemed pretty straight forward to me.

 

[Netopia]

Funny this is posted here. I just downloaded Solaris 10 just to play around with and look at differences. I saw that it said to concatenate and I thought at first that I was going to have to copy all the .zip's to my linux box. Then I read farther and found the "copy /b" and the "+" stuff. Wow... been using DOS since about '84 and never realizes that there was a way to concatenate from the command prompt until now! COOL!

 

[Netopia]

I would just like to take this opportunity to say that my rather uninformed and noob opinion is that SOLARIS SUCKS compared to any of the Linux and BSD variants I've played with. I'm not anywhere near the knowledge of n0cmonkey or drag or nothinman, so maybe I'm wrong... but in my basic playing around I found that:

the install sucks and takes a LONG time to load

the GUIs are both SUCK

they've move files all over the place (or decided that they know best where to put stuff)

they've depricated stuff that is used all the time on other *nix (like inte.d)

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My general feeling is YUCK!

Am I way off base?

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
I would just like to take this opportunity to say that my rather uninformed and noob opinion is that SOLARIS SUCKS compared to any of the Linux and BSD variants I've played with. I'm not anywhere near the knowledge of n0cmonkey or drag or nothinman, so maybe I'm wrong... but in my basic playing around I found that:

the install sucks and takes a LONG time to load

The install isn't great, but I wouldn't put it in the suck category.

the GUIs are both SUCK

Unnecessary for most operations on a Solaris machine.

they've move files all over the place (or decided that they know best where to put stuff)

They make the OS, they should know where things go.

they've depricated stuff that is used all the time on other *nix (like inte.d)

I don't even know what that is. :Q

===========

My general feeling is YUCK!

Am I way off base?

Joe

I think it's great... On SPARC.

 

[Netopia]

n0c,

Your posts are usually both informative and humorous. I rather enjoy them!

I meant to put inetd, not inte.d.... or at least I didn't inte.d to type that!

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
n0c,

Your posts are usually both informative and humorous. I rather enjoy them!

I meant to put inetd, not inte.d.... or at least I didn't inte.d to type that!

RedHat dropped inetd a long time ago.

 

[Netopia]

Doh.... ok, on RH it's xinetd!

But on Solaris they have all their own stuff.

Ok... I'll try to be a bit more reasonable. I'm sure that Solaris is probably a fine operating system, but with the more modern versions of Linux and how thing seem to be much more similar between Linux and SCO for example, it's a bit unnerving to go into what one thinks will be a fairly straight forward OS, only to find that things are all over the place... like APACHE being in /usr. Though since I don't know better, you might next tell me that that's where it is in all the Linux's I've not tried!

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
Doh.... ok, on RH it's xinetd!

But on Solaris they have all their own stuff.

Through at least Solaris 9 (the latest I have access to at the moment) SUN uses inetd.

Ok... I'll try to be a bit more reasonable. I'm sure that Solaris is probably a fine operating system, but with the more modern versions of Linux and how thing seem to be much more similar between Linux and SCO for example, it's a bit unnerving to go into what one thinks will be a fairly straight forward OS, only to find that things are all over the place... like APACHE being in /usr. Though since I don't know better, you might next tell me that that's where it is in all the Linux's I've not tried!

Joe

Apache should be under /usr.

If it's included with the system it probably belongs in /usr. If it is an add-on, it belongs in /usr/local or /opt.

 

[Netopia]

Hmmm.... ok, Solaris is great, but NETOPIA sucks!

Seriously though... I thought I was getting a handle on using *nix and have been feeling more and more comfortable/confident with it. Your kindly and jovially put but truthful statements make me realize that I have a LONG way to go.

So how does one do it without going to school or working in an environment that is already *nix heavy? I've done little LAMP stuff, like phpBB and various photo galleries and the like, but to be honest, there isn't much work in those past (generally) just reading through the install docs and following the instructions. That alone doesn't give one much of a feeling of mastery over or understanding of the OS as a whole. I LOVED DOS, but I also had 20-30 hours per week to devote to just screwing around with it and machines were stand-alone then... except for maybe a modem and a bbs. The company I work for is basicly Win-centric, though I keep trying to find ways to leverage *nix into the fold.

Guess I just have to either start back to school or ......?

Joe

 

[B1ffster]

Yeah but... I downloaded all zip parts, MD5'd them and they came out OK.
Then I unzipped using Winzip, joined them (copy /b a+b+c+d+e iso) and the
ISO fails the MD5 ???
So I tried again using pkunzip. Failed again.
I burned the image and I can't mount it in virtualPC cos it's not a multiple of
2048 bytes.
What's up with that ?

</flamebait> and where's George Clooney ? I cab't find him on the DVD either! </flamebait>

 

[Netopia]

I d/l'ed all the parts of the DVD file. Did the copy /b routine... didn't match the MD5 even though all the seperate parts did. Tried it on a different machine. The MD5 matched the first time, but didn't match what SUN said it should be. Moved over to a Linux box and did it with cat. Once again, got the same MD5 but it didn't match what SUN said it should be. At that point I figured that SUN might have posted a bad MD5 number, so I went ahead and burned the .iso. It wouldn't boot and wasn't readable!

I downloaded the CD .iso's and installed from there without incident (other than the install being MUCH slower (x2 or more) than Linux).

Joe

 

[htne]

I'd like to have a copy of that DVD to play with, without sweating the download, etc. I would trade Mandrake Linux 10.2 beta 2 (3 cd images) or Suse 9.2 DVD or Slackware 10.1 (2 cd images) for a copy of this Solaris DVD. Anyone interested in a trade?

 

[Netopia]

I couldn't get their DVD to assemble correctly as I just said, so I'm not help to you.

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia
Hmmm.... ok, Solaris is great, but NETOPIA sucks!

Seriously though... I thought I was getting a handle on using *nix and have been feeling more and more comfortable/confident with it. Your kindly and jovially put but truthful statements make me realize that I have a LONG way to go.

So how does one do it without going to school or working in an environment that is already *nix heavy? I've done little LAMP stuff, like phpBB and various photo galleries and the like, but to be honest, there isn't much work in those past (generally) just reading through the install docs and following the instructions. That alone doesn't give one much of a feeling of mastery over or understanding of the OS as a whole. I LOVED DOS, but I also had 20-30 hours per week to devote to just screwing around with it and machines were stand-alone then... except for maybe a modem and a bbs. The company I work for is basicly Win-centric, though I keep trying to find ways to leverage *nix into the fold.

Guess I just have to either start back to school or ......?

Joe

I stopped using Windows at home (I'm slowly getting back into it). I used a bunch of different systems when I could. I read a bunch of documents (practically whatever I could get my hands on). I eventually took a unix class and was bored.

Decent read.

 

[Netopia]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Netopia
Hmmm.... ok, Solaris is great, but NETOPIA sucks!

Seriously though... I thought I was getting a handle on using *nix and have been feeling more and more comfortable/confident with it. Your kindly and jovially put but truthful statements make me realize that I have a LONG way to go.

So how does one do it without going to school or working in an environment that is already *nix heavy? I've done little LAMP stuff, like phpBB and various photo galleries and the like, but to be honest, there isn't much work in those past (generally) just reading through the install docs and following the instructions. That alone doesn't give one much of a feeling of mastery over or understanding of the OS as a whole. I LOVED DOS, but I also had 20-30 hours per week to devote to just screwing around with it and machines were stand-alone then... except for maybe a modem and a bbs. The company I work for is basicly Win-centric, though I keep trying to find ways to leverage *nix into the fold.

Guess I just have to either start back to school or ......?

Joe

I stopped using Windows at home (I'm slowly getting back into it). I used a bunch of different systems when I could. I read a bunch of documents (practically whatever I could get my hands on). I eventually took a unix class and was bored.

Decent read.

Great advice about the not using Windows at home. I also like that comparison doc you gave me. As usual, MANY THANKS!

Joe

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Netopia

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Netopia
Hmmm.... ok, Solaris is great, but NETOPIA sucks!

Seriously though... I thought I was getting a handle on using *nix and have been feeling more and more comfortable/confident with it. Your kindly and jovially put but truthful statements make me realize that I have a LONG way to go.

So how does one do it without going to school or working in an environment that is already *nix heavy? I've done little LAMP stuff, like phpBB and various photo galleries and the like, but to be honest, there isn't much work in those past (generally) just reading through the install docs and following the instructions. That alone doesn't give one much of a feeling of mastery over or understanding of the OS as a whole. I LOVED DOS, but I also had 20-30 hours per week to devote to just screwing around with it and machines were stand-alone then... except for maybe a modem and a bbs. The company I work for is basicly Win-centric, though I keep trying to find ways to leverage *nix into the fold.

Guess I just have to either start back to school or ......?

Joe

I stopped using Windows at home (I'm slowly getting back into it). I used a bunch of different systems when I could. I read a bunch of documents (practically whatever I could get my hands on). I eventually took a unix class and was bored.

Decent read.

Great advice about the not using Windows at home. I also like that comparison doc you gave me. As usual, MANY THANKS!

Joe

I learned the most when I started really using *nix.

The doc is from a mostly harmless crazy old man. He's got some good ideas here and there though, so his site is worth checking out.

 

[Sunner]

The things I hate about Solaris are it's userland and installer.
Of course, I've not used the x86 installer in a long time, but knowing Sun, I doubt it's any better than the SPARC one

Inetd is still there by the way, it's just handled differently compared to previous Solaris versions(and Linux distros for that matter).
It's an svc service now, so if you wanna stop it, you'd type "svcadm enable inetd", stopping or restarting works the same way.
It's very poorly documented though, the inetd manpage still refers to the old "inetd stop/start" commands for example, typical of Solaris piss poor manpages.

Joe, if you wanna use Solaris, check out Sunfreeware, lots of precompiled packages there, for both SPARC and x86, makes life easier.
Not to mention docs.sun.com and BigAdmin.

 

[Netopia]

Thanks Sunner! I'll go and check out the site, but I don't think I really want to spend a bunch of time with Solaris... just learn enough to feel less than totally incompetient! Actually, a friend of mine up in the Boston area who does temp work/consulting for a living has a potential client that wants him to know more about Solaris, so I installed it so he could SSH into it and look around and play. It's definitly been an eye opener and a learning experience. I see what you mean about inetd, here's what I get when I try to start of stop it:

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inetd is now an smf(5) managed service and can no longer be run from the
command line. To enable or disable inetd refer to svcadm(1M) on
how to enable "svc:/network/inetdefault", the inetd instance.

The traditional inetd command line option mappings are:
-d : there is no supported debug output
-s : inetd is only runnable from within the SMF
-t : See inetadm(1M) on how to enable TCP tracing
-r : See inetadm(1M) on how to set a failure rate

To specify an alternative configuration file see svccfg(1M)
for how to modify the "start/exec" string type property of
the inetd instance, and modify it according to the syntax:
"/usr/lib/inet/inetd [alt_config_file] %m".

For further information on inetd see inetd(1M).

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I'll check out those other sites too... they look good, thanks.

Joe

 

[Sunner]

Yeah, you don't see the smf/svc stuff until you try to run it, which kinda sucks in a Solaris-manpage kind of way
Like I said, to stop it, run svcadm disable inetd.

Solaris is definitely an acquired taste, I didn't like it much at first.
I guess if you've never used *BSD or Linux when you start with it, it might be better, but when I first started using Solaris I'd previously tried both Linux and Free/OpenBSD, as well as Digital UNIX.