Re: Could Solaris DVD perform an integrity check?
- From: "Dave (from the UK)" <see-my-signature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 12:43:03 +0100
Logan Shaw wrote:
What Sun needs to do waaaaay before they do anything fancy like that
I doubt it is that fancy. I expect anyone with a good knowledge of the boot process and the layout of CDs (Joerg Schilling for example) would be able to do it without a lot of effort.
is simply to put MUCH clearer wording on their web page that when
you download the Solaris DVD image, you are downloading 5 files but
I tend to agree. Based on the postings here, some are definitely confused about exactly what one has to do.
When I did have a problem creating a usable DVD, I thought my /bin/unzip might be corrupt (I later found out I'd run out of disk space when extracting a segment a month or two earlier).
So when I asked if my /bin/unzip was corrupt, someone said:
* No, I think your methodology is corrupt!
* Those files are "images" of one CD each. They were intended to
* be burned as "images". What this means is that the image
* contains the entire file system. When you burn it to a CD
* as an image" you create a bootable CD.
* I couldn't begin to guess the proper method of creating a DVD
* from those files but I'm quite certain that "cat" isn't it!
It seems there are a combination of things Sun could do here.
1) Do some research and find out whey people screw up making the DVD or CD.
2) Make the instructions clearer and more viable.
3) Provide suitable checksums not only on the files on the web site, but on the extracted portions and the complete DVD too.
4) An integrity check like I suggest.
5) Make it *VERY* clear that simply copying the files onto a CD will not work at all.
6) Make it clear there is no need to set any options to make the CD bootable, since the ISO will be.
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