Solaris 10 Companion Cd Download

Return to site

Solaris 10 Companion Cd Download

Ferry Schuller  wrote:
> what is the path on the cd i've only got the two install cd'sHere is a description on how to get CUPS printing going on Solaris 10: Download the Companion CD for Solaris 10 GA on: Solaris 10 Companion cd download Unzip the iso file: bunzip2 softwarecompanionsparc.iso.bz2. Solaris users can get precompiled versions of readline-7.0 from OpenCSW or the Unixpackages (subscription) site. Oracle ships readline-4.2 as a supported part of the Solaris 10 companion CD and readline-6.3 as a supported part of Solaris 11. The version of Solaris/Illumos distributed as OpenIndiana includes readline-6.3 as of October 2020.
What install CDs? If you have got the iSO images from Sun Microsystem
you probably will have three cd-roms (the INSTALLATION cdrom and both
the Solaris 8 1 of 2 and 2 of 2 cdroms). Both the INSTALLATION cdrom
and the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2 are supposed to be bootable. If not,
you can try to boot from the DCA diskette.
Cdrecord: A CD/DVD/BD recording program readcd: A program to read CD/DVD/BD media with CD-clone features cdda2wav: The most evolved CD-audio extraction program with paranoia support mkisofs: A program to create hybrid ISO9660/Joliet/HFS filesystems with optional Rock Ridge attributes isodebug: A program to print mkisofs debug information from media isodump: A program to dump ISO-9660 media.
COMPANION CD Companion CD packages are also available via the UNIX Packages website, including the latest versions built for Solaris 10 Update 11 for SPARC and X86. This has been updated and expanded to 110 packages See Solaris 10 U11 Companion CD/DVD.Earlier Solaris 8, 9, 10 releases are available in our ISO archives.
If you have the commercial version you will have a lot of cdroms
not included in the downloadable release (the European and Asian
documentation cdroms, the useful Bonus Software, StarOffice, Oracle,
etc...).
Try booting from the Solaris 8 Software 1 of 2. If it not works (?)
try booting from the INSTALLATION cdrom and, at last, from the DCA
diskette. Not sure what is the recommended way (sure that Solaris 8
Software 1 of 2 is the preferred way but I cannot say if it is
better to boot from the diskette or directly from the cdrom). If
your BIOS do not supports bootable cdroms try (1) to upgrade your
BIOS release, (2) to boot from the DCA diskette.
> Igor you are great man thanks for al your time it looks i'm a silly
> solaris user but believe me i'm not the worse
No in both cases! I am not a great man, a lot of people help me much
more last months that I am helping you now. And you are not a silly
Solaris user, you are starting with this new operating system. Some
weeks ago I had the same problem (I learned recently how to install
the Solaris operating system from the INSTALLATION cdrom instead of
the Solaris 8 Software cdrom) and I had some problems that probably
sounds silly but that really stopped me some days (by the way, I am
not sure how these problems go away yet).
Best regards,

Solaris Os Free DownloadIgor.-- 
Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sob...@acm.org

pkg-get is a tool similar to debian 'apt-get', that automates downloadingand install of packages for Solaris. You can use pkg-get to make installingSun's companion-CD packages as simple as You can configure pkg-get to install from a CDROM, but if you dont have onehandy, and would prefer to auto-download from a public mirror site, you can nowdo so. Furthermore, when Sun releases newer versions of the 'companion'packages, you can runand it will automatically upgrade the SFW packages you have installed.
The archive also has a few extra libraries and programs that Sun has notyet seen fit to add to the official 'Companion CD' distribution, but thatare highly useful. These packages are designated by a 'COM' prefix, ratherthan 'SFW'.
Instructions for network useFirst, get pkg-getThen after running it once to set up the config file, adjust/etc/pkg-get.conf to use one of the appropriate URLs below.I recommend using the http ones over the ftp ones, but I recognize thatsometimes, people dont have the choice.
USA http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/companion/ 
 (ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/companion/) 
 http://tiger.towson.edu/mirror/companion/
DENMARK http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/solaris-companion/
 (ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/solaris-companion/)
The packages have been converted from the original CD's directory format,to 'stream' format, which lets you gzip them.If you'd like to run a local mirror for your site, you canupdate your own server through rsync, through one of these rsync 'URLs'If you are kind enough to want to host a public mirror site yourselves,please email me, and I'll make sure you get the full information about themaster site, etc. Using pkg-get with a cdromIf you happen to have a physical companion CD, you can point pkg-getdirectly at its location, viaBut having a networked server for this sort of thing is much, muchmore convenient, not to mention faster.If you wish to volunteer to be a maintainer for a package not already madeavailable, see thestandards document
Written by:Philip Brown

pkg-get is a tool similar to debian 'apt-get', that automates downloadingand install of packages for Solaris. You can use pkg-get to make installingSun's companion-CD packages as simple as You can configure pkg-get to install from a CDROM, but if you dont have onehandy, and would prefer to auto-download from a public mirror site, you can nowdo so. Furthermore, when Sun releases newer versions of the 'companion'packages, you can runand it will automatically upgrade the SFW packages you have installed.
The archive also has a few extra libraries and programs that Sun has notyet seen fit to add to the official 'Companion CD' distribution, but thatare highly useful. These packages are designated by a 'COM' prefix, ratherthan 'SFW'.
Instructions for network useFirst, get pkg-getThen after running it once to set up the config file, adjust/etc/pkg-get.conf to use one of the appropriate URLs below.I recommend using the http ones over the ftp ones, but I recognize thatsometimes, people dont have the choice.
USA http://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/companion/ 
 (ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/packages/solaris/companion/) 
 http://tiger.towson.edu/mirror/companion/
DENMARK http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/solaris-companion/
 (ftp://sunsite.dk/mirrors/solaris-companion/)
The packages have been converted from the original CD's directory format,to 'stream' format, which lets you gzip them.If you'd like to run a local mirror for your site, you canupdate your own server through rsync, through one of these rsync 'URLs'If you are kind enough to want to host a public mirror site yourselves,please email me, and I'll make sure you get the full information about themaster site, etc. Using pkg-get with a cdromIf you happen to have a physical companion CD, you can point pkg-getdirectly at its location, viaBut having a networked server for this sort of thing is much, muchmore convenient, not to mention faster.If you wish to volunteer to be a maintainer for a package not already madeavailable, see thestandards document
Written by:Philip Brown
Solaris 10 Companion Cd DownloadsBolthole TopSearch Bolthole.com 