Re: Backing Up the Solaris 9 Media Kit

From: Gerry Sinkiewicz (sinkiege_at_snet.net)
Date: 01/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 02:21:43 GMT

"Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@visi.com> wrote in message
news:3ffae852$0$41284$a1866201@newsreader.visi.com...
> russking@tpg.com.au (Russell King) writes:
> >I have the Solaris 9 Sparc Media Kit and would like to make a backup
> >of the Installation CDs.
>
> >With the previous Media Kits (Solaris 7 and 8).. we made backups using
> >Nero but since Solaris 9 is distributed on DVDs.. Nero does not
> >recognise the Sol. 9 Installation DVDs.
>
> >- What is the best way to make a backup of the Solaris 9 DVDs?
>
> >I thought of using 'dd' and then burning the image but don't have the
> >hardware at the moment. Any suggestions would be great.
>
>
> Use dd to suck in the disc, and burn out the ISO to DVD recordable media.
> If you don't have a recorder, then buy another media kit. Or buy the
> media kit with the CDs instead of the DVD and back up the CDs if you
> want backups of them. My Solaris 9 media-kit came with both a DVD and
> CDs, but that was a while ago for the FCS version. Don't know what
> they have now.
>

The install DVD seems to copy ok if you use Nero and copy to an image file
(DVD Copy).
Then burn the image to a DVD-R/RW. Just tried it, and it seems ok, but have
not tested it
by installing via a DVD reader on a Sparc platform, since none of my little
Ultra10s
at home have DVD readers in them. I see no reason it would not work.
One thing you may need to do is be sure you can see all files including
hinden/system files
on your PC when you do this kind of copy (those windows option designed to
protect you
from yourself are only good if you need protection from yourself, which the
typical system
admin type person does not).

The Media kits for both Solaris 9 Sparc and Solaris 9 x86 came with a full
collection of CDs
so you really don't need a backup of the DVD (at least mine did) and I
believe they still do.
Anyway since I used a DVD-RW, I can just erase the thing if I find someday
that it does not
work and use the original.

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