Re: [SLUG] OT: OpenSalarus

From: Robert Snyder (res03q8w@gte.net)
Date: Sat Feb 25 2006 - 18:18:52 EST


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
>

How many times are your planing to misspell the word SOLARIS!

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