RE: SunBlade 1000

[email protected] (Sandwich Maker)
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
" From: "Lewis, Ben \(Ben\)" <[email protected]>
" 
" >Downloading Solaris 10 CD ISO's (I don't have a DVD burner) over a
" >512/512 DSL is damn slow though... argh!
" 
" That was the trouble I had, the download took ages.

how impatient you youngsters get!	;^>	queue up the d/l, then
walk away and do something else for a while!

back in the late '80s, the project i was on required regularly
downloading fresh 1Mb system builds over a serial line.  this took
several hours, and for some reason we didn't have any error
correction, so you could spend all day and still not have a good load.

-fast- modems were 1200 and 2400 baud.

more recently, but before i got my 768/128 dsl, i downloaded s8 isos
over a dialup; even at v.34 speeds it took several nights.  now that
was slow!

" I managed to
" download all 5 .iso files and cat them together into one big file to
" burn onto DVD. However even though that DVD would boot, the installer
" told me it couldn't find the files for the second disk so I ended up
" burning five separate CDs.

i think you'd have to do something more subtle than just catting the
.isos together to make a single dvd image.  perhaps a multisession
dvd, with each .iso a session?  something to make them appear to be
separate slices or 'tracks'.

or you could loopback-mount the images and use mkisofs to combine
their contents into a dvd image.
________________________________________________________________________
Andrew Hay                                  the genius nature
internet rambler                            is to see what all have seen
[email protected]                       and think what none thought
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.