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Old 09-20-2005
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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...
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Old 09-20-2005
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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 , it's trivial:

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

notice the >> for all but the first.
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Where did you get these parts and in what format are they?
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Old 09-20-2005
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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.
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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.
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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
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Maybe you should have bothered to read this: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/...nstruction.xml
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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.
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Old 09-20-2005
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jobeard
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
Quote:
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
Quote:
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 )
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