On Saturday 25 February 2006 08:51, SOTL wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Slightly off topic help request.
>
> Messing around yesterday I found that one could download OpenSolarus from
> the following location.
>
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/
>
> From the number of disks and addins it looks to be a rather complete
> distribution. Unfortunately that is all I know about it. I did try
> yesterday to burn the ISOs to disk and found that they are BZ2s. I then
> referred to the old installation instructions and was unable to ascertain
> that the installation instructions are in a read-me file.
>
> All well and good but at the current time both of my computers are and will
> be for the rest of the morning locked up on other projects so I can not
> play with these ISOs. All I can do is write this posting.
>
> Does anyone know how to turn them into standard ISO or is that what I want
> to install them. Concern is that if I unzip them that the ISOs will then be
> larger than what a CD can hold. I did not download the DVD version as I do
> not have a DVD burner but with each ISO in the 670Kbite range one wanders
> that if one unzips that then the ISO will be much larger than what is able
> to fit on a disk.
>
> Thanks
> SOTL
>
It seems you have to start with the DVD Solaris community version
and use it with the GCC compiler to build your system from source code.
Richard Smoot
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