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About Solaris 9 -x86 installation
Name: gordonz Date: May 23, 2004 at 10:24:23 Pacific OS: Windows 98 CPU/Ram: 133 Mhz, 128MB
Comment:
I downloaded Solaris 9 -x86 from Sun with first three CDs and burned them into CD-R. but when I put CD1 into my CD-ROM and reboot from my PC, It cann't boot from CD even afterI changed boot sequence in BIOS, Does the ISO image needs to be treated somehow before I burn into CD or just as a whole image burn into CD to make it work?
Name: taurus Date: May 24, 2004 at 08:46:09 Pacific
Reply:
How did you burn the ISO files anyway??? You suppose to burn them (or at least the first one) as image files which means you are not supposed to extract them first before you burn them... Try burning them or at least the first one again and if you don't know what's going on, then perhaps Solaris is a little over your head right now!!!
Summary: I have a PC with two hard drives in it. The master drive has Solaris 9 x86 and the slave drive has fat32 formatted drive. I have tried to use: mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0d1p0:1 /mnt and when I do this ...
Summary: Hello Jhonny, Thanks for your reply which I greatly appreciate. Anyhow, I tried every thing I could think of but nothing worked. I deleted all partions in the Hard Drive and installed Solaris 9 x86 on...
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