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solaris 7 boot disk
Name: jason Date: January 28, 2001 at 14:41:06 Pacific
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How do I create a solaris 7 boot disk to load the OS from the install CD that is not bootable?
I downloaded the Solaris 8 Floppy software from the location specified by Avinash Mehta but this file is 1.47MB. the floppy would not accomodate more than 1.44MB. How do I make a bootable floppy out of this
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Response Number 4
Name: eashwar.m Date: June 30, 2001 at 11:12:49 Pacific
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pls tell me how to create solaris boot disk by using a 1.44 floppy
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Response Number 5
Name: RayTech Date: November 6, 2001 at 01:40:52 Pacific
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Thanks Avinash Mehta, nothing like searching around sun for this with no hits to make you feel stupid... Anyhow, I was able to create the floppy with the dd.exe tool for dos machines. The solaris instructions as well as the tool can be found here: http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/copytodisk.html Syntax: dd filename A:
Hope this helps.
Regards, ~Ray
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Response Number 6
Name: M.Praveen Date: December 10, 2001 at 09:26:22 Pacific
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Thanks to Avinash Mehta,I was able to find the bootdisk image and it heped me a lot and i also thank Raytech for his suggestion to compress the image into a 1.44Mb floppy
I was able to find the images at this URL http://soldc.sun.com/support/drivers/dca_diskettes.
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Response Number 7
Name: Mikey Date: February 4, 2002 at 05:23:38 Pacific
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thank you :)
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Response Number 8
Name: Srinivasan Date: February 17, 2002 at 21:33:18 Pacific
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How do I create a solaris 7 boot disk to load the OS from the install CD that is not bootable?
Summary: Hi, I have emailed you a zipped copy of the Solaris 7 startup disk, if Hotmail screws it up send me an email address that does not and I will send it again. Regards Austin ...
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