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Name: ahjwad
Date: June 12, 2001 at 07:05:05 Pacific
Comment:

hi
i wanna install solaris 7.X. I have a C.D. But i dont have a dca boot floppy.
Can any body tell me how to get the boot floppy




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Response Number 1
Name: Gab
Date: June 12, 2001 at 23:44:50 Pacific
Reply:


Press Stop-A.
boot CDROM

and insert your Solaris CD-Rom.

You can DL the solaris media kit
from www.sun.com. You don't
need to pay for that!

Needed: Install, Utils 1, Utils 2

This is revision 8


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Response Number 2
Name: jun
Date: June 13, 2001 at 02:14:59 Pacific
Reply:

I can't find the boot disk in www.sun.com.
could you tell me where is it?
Thanks.


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Response Number 3
Name: rick
Date: June 14, 2001 at 14:11:16 Pacific
Reply:

sparc or intel ?


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Response Number 4
Name: Venkatesh
Date: June 17, 2001 at 12:29:55 Pacific
Reply:

The DCA diskette is used for booting, in lieu of booting from CDROM or hard disk. The DCA diskette comes with the Solaris media, but you need to "roll your own" if you downloaded Solaris or if your DCA diskette
becomes corrupted. To create the diskette, follow these steps:

(i)Download DOS program dd.exe, which is used to write the DCA image, from http://SolDC.Sun.COM/support/drivers/tools/

(ii)Download the DCA diskette image for the Solaris x86 version that you want to install (for example, S8_0101.3) from http://SolDC.Sun.COM/support/drivers/dca_diskettes/

(iii)Run dd.exe to copy the image to the floppy diskette: dd.exe a:

You have now created a (bootable) Solaris DCA diskette.


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Response Number 5
Name: venkatesh
Date: June 17, 2001 at 12:34:02 Pacific
Reply:

In reply to my earlier reply there is a small correction. In step 3, the command to be given is :

dd.exe a:


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Response Number 6
Name: venkatesh
Date: June 17, 2001 at 12:38:20 Pacific
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Sorry once again. somehow the command i tried to paste is not being pasted properly in the earlier mails. Step 3 is to be read as:

dd.exe "filename obtained from step 2(eg:"
S8_0101.3)" a:


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Response Number 7
Name: Ahmad
Date: October 4, 2001 at 13:40:20 Pacific
Reply:

I copied the dd.exe from the web site. I want to install solaris 8 intel on my laptop. Please give me simple directions to install solaris 8 on intel pc.


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