[Suns-at-Home] Customized Sun Boot CD/DVD

[Charles Lindsey]

> Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:33:22 -0400 (EDT)
> From: adh@an.bradford.ma.us (Sandwich Maker)
> To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] Customized Sun Boot CD/DVD
>
> " From: "Arthur J. Byrnes" <arthur@ajb.com>
> "
> "
> " I have been trying to build a customized Solaris Sparc boot cd and
> " dvd.  Actually, I wanted to make a LiveCD suck as Knopix, but that
> " seems like it will be a lot more work.  There seems to be a Solaris
> " LiveCD project, but its for pc, and its not very active.
> "
> " []
> "
> " But what does seem to be tough is burning the cd/dvd, since it seems
> " that Sun partitions the cd, or as the pc folks say, mult-tracks
> " it.  I can burn the iso's from Sun, but once I edit them on the pc,
> " they only burn as drink coasters...
> "
> " []
> "
> " So, finally, my question, do any of you fine folks know of an iso
> " editing program that can deal with the partitions/tracks?  MagicIso
> " and WinIso don't.
> "
>
> that's because the cd isn't a proper iso; it's actually formatted like
> a read-only hd, 512b block ufs.

But that can't be right. I downloaded Solaris 10 from Sun, which arrived  
as an ISO complete CD image. And I burnt it on a PC, and it worked.

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