I recently downloaded a copy of solaris 8 from sun. Some how i can't install it. Can any kind people send me some infor on how to install it to mailto://foex13@yahoo.com. any help would be appreciated!

What you downloaded is the ISO images. They will have to be burnt to cd before you can install. wcr3d

i know it is an ISO image, it is burned into the cd. i need some help on how to install it. Like where do i start, how do i partition the dorn thing. There are several error messages i got, like bogus sector number, unable to mount, and swap size sxceed limit etc. i have tried everything. but nothing seem to work!

Try deleting the partitions and installing from there create them in the installation wcr3d

well, i did that like twenty times on two different machines, i created two partition like sun's doc saids, one is boot xr86 something "a", then one is regular solaris. i keep getting this error, /temp.... exceed limit. then i used my dos util to see what is inside, actually i created three partitions, one is boot"a",one is regular, one is 10mb,<--- i don't know where the hell this 10mb comes from, and it is active. i didn't create it. o, well ok, it deleted every and try one partition and no bootxr.. ok, another 10mb shows up in my partition. i don't know where the hell this 10 mb comes from, it is used as swap slice instead of the one i created for them. i did everything, some how this 10mb mystery partition kills me. any help, Plz!

This is the RAM DRIVE that it created for setup files. You should have 2 paritions. A Swap file partition and a Root partition. The swap file will have to be atleast 350megs. The Root will have to be the active one. If you are installing Solaris 8 then follow the prompts and let it do the work. HTH. wcr3d

oh well, i put back my windows 2000 demos up and running anyway! Thanks for the advice, solaris ... hehe... never again! Active Directory is more fun than playing partitioning like a fool! hehe... no offense! Who like microsoft? bla!