[Suns-at-Home] I need GIMP

[Andre van Eyssen]

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007, Charles Lindsey wrote:


The usual first option is www.blastwave.org for any open source binaries 
you might want.

> Alternatively, if I download the DVD to disc (1.2GB - probably 3GB when 
> unzipped), is there any way to extract an individual package from it without 
> burning a DVD first? Experiments with a file copy of one of the Solaris 10 
> CDs indicate that you cannot mount it from a file, because that file is not a 
> 'block' device.

Check the manpage for "lofi".

> Alternatively again, what is the availability of DVD burners? It has to have 
> a SCSI interfact, because of the Ultra-2.

Not worth the effort.

-- 
Andre van Eyssen.
                   "the only value you can add to a banana is a bruise"
                                                            -- McNealy.