You need all the CD's for Solaris 10. (There are ways to boot off the network, but they require a preexisting infrastructure.)
One option if you are willing to try out Nexenta, which is an OpenSolaris distro, you can get exactly what you want. Which shouldn't be surprising, since it aims to be a merging of Solaris and Ubuntu. (Check out www.gnusolaris.org) -Brian On 8/1/07, Erik Holmquist <erik.holmquist at gmail.com> wrote: > > I am a total newbie of Solaris 10 and read documents about installing. > > I got a older PC x86 standing aside and I would like to get it up and > testing it whit Solaris 10. > > I got a problem, I don?t have DVD player on it. > > Using CD-rom version: > > Wonder if there is by any change possible to brun CD1 for x86 into a > standard CD-rom and boot up and during install and choose to download rest > of it from ftp or http. > > Like you can do whit Linux. > > Do I really need to brun 5 CD-roms ? I am to short of CDs and live to far > from a supermarket ;) > > Thanks > Erik H > > Sweden > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-help mailing list > opensolaris-help at opensolaris.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/opensolaris-help/attachments/20070801/106a31f3/attachment.html>
