Jürgen Keil wrote: >> Some how I ALWAYS have problems with downloaded x86 isos. >> Both from Sun and OpenSolaris. >> With Sol10 u3 I got the following error with the DVD and CD's >> hsfs mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 is not an hsfs file system >> but I managed a workaround using a loopback mount on >> my linux box -- but it was not pretty nfs4 vs 3.... >> > > What kind of optical media? > How did you write the optical media? > Did you verify the md5 checksums for the downloaded files? > Did you verify that the downloaded iso is bit-for-bit identical with the > contents of the optical media? > >
I had endless trouble the first few times I tried this process. I haven't had any lately; convincing me that *all* the early trouble was user error on my part (not just the few bits I definitively found the error I was committing). My process now: Download the .zip files Download the MD5 file Extract the .zip file contents Verify the files so far (really, only need to verify the extracted files, but using md5sum from the downloaded file verifies everything it can find) Assemble the files -- on Windows, the exact command is critical, if you don't use binary mode the result is wrong. I'm reasonably sure that my user errors were mostly in this step. Verify the files again (really all I care about is the iso at this point, but see previous note) Burn the ISO (I use Roxio sofware on Windows for this, myself) The MD5 verification will mostly find *your* errors; the download process has enough checks built-in that I don't think I've ever caught an error there with the MD5 verification. As a side note, I think it's a mistake for Sun to divide the downloads into three pieces. If, as advised, you're using their download manager, resuming an interrupted download is no problem, and on the other hand I and lots of other people posting here have had a lot of trouble combining the pieces. -- David Dyer-Bennet, [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list [email protected]
