Solaris ?

just DL Solaris,

it is 5 .iso images of about 500Mb each

• sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a
• sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b
• sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c
• sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d
• sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e

then tried to build sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso (converge separatly downloaded iso's) with:

Code:

cat sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b
sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d
sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso

then continual screens of crap like this:

this

and this


it's been scrolling that crap onscreen for like 5 hours now and it's still going

BTW: got so bored i even kept changing the text colour of konsole

how long should i wait ?

 

It could take a long time. CAT is a little slow with anything other than text files. It would be nice if there was an option to NOT dump output to the console and do it all silently.

You can check the size of your .iso file to see how far along it is.

In another console window in the same directory:

Code:

# du -h

 

I don't think you did it right if you see it on the screen. You need to do it all as one big file! You're 'cat'ing it as one command and not many lines, right? Otherwise, it will display onscreen and never write to the file.

Code:

cat sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso

The ">" part redirects the output to a file rather than to the terminal.

 

well i pressed the reset button (on case) @ about 14:05, cos i got fed up of waiting, it was running for over 20 hours

i think so

so how should i rebuild the .iso from the 5 parts, i got the command

Code:

cat sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso

from Solaris site

 

Code:

cat sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-a sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-b sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-c sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-d sol-10-u2-ga-x86-dvd-iso-e > sol-10-GA-sp-dvd.iso

That command should work. I think that even when you are dumping to a file, the input is displayed. Open a new tab in konsole, if that is what you are using and try it again. Then you can just ignore it for a few days

 

why, will it take that bl**dy long

 

sorted it, [ot]linux is very picky about simple text formatting errors[/ot]

 

Unix systems do exactly what you tell them to do. If you think Linux is picky, wait until you try Solaris... :doh:

 

thanks man, i think, oh sod it, trying solaris anyway (albeit through VMware)