Solaris Operating System

Solaris 10 DVD Instructions

You have the choice of downloading a single DVD image file or multiple image segments that will be combined into a single image after download. Sun has also broken the Solaris 10 DVD image into two 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.

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 for example:
"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 5/08 DVD for SPARC, type:

cat sol-10-u5-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u5-ga-sparc-dvd-iso-b > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso

The result is a true ISO image that you can use to burn a DVD. The multiple segments you downloaded separately will not work until they are concatenated as described.

For example, when downloading onto a Windows system, concatenate the files using this command at the command prompt (MS-DOS prompt):

copy /b sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a + sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u5-ga-x86-dvd.iso

The result is a true ISO image that you can use to burn a DVD. The multiple segments you downloaded separately will not work until they are concatenated as described.

Once the copy is complete, you should have one image ready to be burned to a DVD.

Use the software that supports your DVD burner to create a DVD using this image file (e.g. Roxio Easy Media Creator on a Windows system or the cdrw utility on a Solaris system). Make sure you use the kind of media supported by your DVD burner. There are DVD-R/DVD-RW as well as DVD+R/DVD+RW recordable DVDs. Not all DVD burners support both. Do not use DVD+R DL (dual layer) discs.

NOTE: Once you have downloaded a file, you should check that it has not been corrupted during the download before burning it to a DVD. For that, you need to do an "md5 checksum", which compares your downloaded file against the file you would find on the server. There are various free, available utilities for all popular operating systems (i.e. Windows, Solaris, Linux) that enable this. More than one md5 checksum lists may be provided on the download page—be sure to pick the one corresponding to the files you downloaded.