Combining the 5 solaris files...

Hi Im having some trouble combining all of the 5 parts of the Solaris installation ISO...Is there any program that will combine them? the Command Prompt on windows (xp home) isn't working well.... thanks alot
I might try downloading the CD version if this doesnt work...

the first question is 'Should they be combined'?
Unless they were created with that intent, you'll just muck'm all to heck.


If you have access to a unix emulator like Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com/) , it's trivial:

cat file1 >combined
cat file2 >>combined
...
cat fileN >>combined

notice the >> for all but the first.

Where did you get these parts and in what format are they?

I got it off of the Sun website and the instructions were to combine them and microsoft doesn't recognize the format it was a zip file and when I unzipped it its in "file" format.

I pray you're downloading the JVM, as almost anything else would be useless in Windows. Also assume you're access is dial-up and you're getting segments
because of download times required.

actually It automatically has segments and wont let download the entire file :( You guys can forget this problem...I'll just download the CD's version :) thanks

Maybe you should have bothered to read this: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/download_instruction.xml

:blush: I did I still couldn't get the command to work :-/ sorry ...but its ok I'm just gonna go ahead and get the other version.

I pray you're downloading the JVM, as almost anything else would be useless in Windows.

Considering he's downloading Solaris, which is a Unix OS, I seriously hope he isn't downloading the JVM instead ;)

As for concatenating the files in windows, here's what copy /? has to say

To append files, specify a single file for destination, but multiple files
for source (using wildcards or file1+file2+file3 format).

So to create the DVD image, you should type

copy /B firstFile + secondFile + thirdFile + fourthFile + fifthFile sol-10-GA-x86-dvd.iso


Sorry for the firstFile etc., but I couldn't find the filenames on sun's page and wasn't in the mood for registering (or remembering)...

(Hmm, seems code /code doesn't work anymore :()