

Ps The 2 software ISO's burned fine with no problems. Please, if someone knows what may be the problem or if there is a bug with the current install ISO, please tell me. I tryed to boot off of it and it fails (of course). How or why is a 555mb ISO turning into a 122kb CD? Am i missing something? Something must be wrong with the ISO. Now, when i burn to CD it comes out with 122kb total on the CD with a total of 5 files. The ISO burns fine with NO errors every time. I have downloaded the Sparc Install ISO 5 different times. (This assumes the user did use theĬorrect method to burn that ISO image to a blank CD, using the CD burning software's "write CD from ISO The Solaris OS "Installation" CD and "Software 1 of N" CD are bootable.

The Software Companion CD is definitely not bootable. The Solaris operating system CDs are ISO images IIRC, the only ISO image available from Sun that is compressed with bzip2 is the Solaris Software CompanionĬD (e.g. Thanks to your help, I'll get again the image file and try follow the correct steps to write it. If your using RW media, you might try just using normal R media. Some CD-ROM's won't boot certain media, namely CD-RW. If you mount the disk and just see the ISO itself, you burned it wrong.Īnother possiblity is the type of CDR/RW you used. Particularlly with Roxio users on Win32, I've seen people mistakenly burning a CD with the ISO on it rather than burning the ISO to disk. You might want to put the CD in another system and verify you wrote the disk properly. I got the iso.bz2 from sun web site, so i descompressed the bz2 and writed a disk with the image, but when i try to boot with this cd-rom it does not boot! I'm new in the solaris world and i`m having a problem with the instalation. Solaris CD is Bootable? - Solaris on x86 Hi all,
