> Hi all, > > I wanted to use the latest image from genunix.org to > install from. > > I've tried to burn the .iso a few times but it never > works, I always get > a disk read error. I don't know if my burner is dodgy > or what. > > Rather than keep wasting CDs I thought I'd try the > USB version instead, > but that seems to just be a filesystem rather than a > bootable image. I > found a thread on install-discuss from last year > where someone says you > need a script to turn it into something bootable, but > the link no longer > works. > > Can anyone tell me > > a) If the .ISO files should be usable by just burning > to CD > b) How I use the USB image.
The x86 / x64 iso image is bootable, the SPARC image is not (although it will be soon). Assuming you are using the x86 / x64 image then you will need to write the latest images to a DVD since they are too big to fit on a CD. You can verify that there are no errors in the iso image you downloaded by verifying the MD5 sum - there is a link to a file containing the MD5 sums of the images listed along with the images themselves on genunix.org. There are various tools to compute the MD5 sum of an file - on Windows you can use fastsum (from fastsum.com). If the MD5 sum which you calculate matches the MD5 sum in the file downloaded from genunix then you can be reasonably certain that a disk you burn from the image will be OK. There is a chicken and egg problem with the USB image - it requires a working OpenSolaris installation in order to run the usbcopy script (part of the SUNW distro-const package). There is also a Windows tool that claims to be able to write this image to a USB flash drive here: http://devzone.sites.pid0.org/OpenSolaris/opensolaris-liveusb-creator but it produce a working image on my system. Your best bet is therefore the iso image - but remember to verify then burn it to a DVD rather than a CD. HTH Andrew. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
