Dear List,
My associate and I have managed to create no less than a dozen new
coasters for our cafeteria trying to make a backup copy of the Solaris 8
Installation (Boot) CDROMs.
Clearly, it should not be so keenly difficult to make a simple CD copy.
The bulk of our shiny new coasters were the result of following the
"ftp.fokus.gmd.de:pub/unix/cdrecord/README.sparcboot" instructions
and then using `cdrecord`
However, for the following bit:
mkisofs -R -sparc-boot sun4,sun4c,sun4m,sun4d,sun4e -o boot.img /mnt/install
we had to presume that "/mnt/install" was the boot disk /dev/dsk/c0t6d0s1
partition mounted as /mnt/install. Anything else resulted in an error
with the "mkisofs" command.
Also, unless we used the "fstyp -v" suggestion, the resulting output of
"mkisofs" was always about 900 megabytes necessitating the
dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s[1-5] of=sun4[cmde] bs=1k count=[size]
command for each partition.
For the cdrecord aspect, we used:
cdrecord -data -v -dev=6,0 speed=[1246] boot.img
cdrecord -isofs -data -v -dev=6,0 speed=[1246] boot.img
(and other combinations that ended up with more immediate disaster)
Every single burn resulted in "Boot file not found" or "File loaded
does not appear to be executable" or other some such nonsense.
With such seemingly advanced tools as "cdrecord" and "mkisofs", one could
easily imagine that copying a damned Solaris 8 boot CDROM would be a
simple and easy task. However, we not only found out the exact opposite,
but also that no one else seems to have actually done it successfully
either (at least according to dejanews and other search engines). The
closest we've ever heard of such a copy actually working were completely
ambiguous "teasers" (conclusively). Such as the infamous one liner from
Casper Dik "Use dd and cdrecord"
Thus I seek help from the list to please, please prove us both the
fools we have been made by this mess.
I'll summarize, if there's interest.
Bob Woten
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