This is my first time setting up a Unix system, and I'm very excited to do so, but I'm run into some problems from the get go!
I downloaded Solaris 9 (I specifically need this version of Unix, as I'm gunning for a better position in my company), and got a bz2 compressed image. I intend to put this on either an old Win 98SE with 48MB of RAM, or if that's too slow than an XP box with 256MB.
I found a Win utility to decompress the BZIP file, and now have an ISO.
What now? I've tried burning it as a boot disk using Nero, but while the laptop does boot to it, I have no reaction.
Can anyone give me any advise how I can boot to this, and load the O/S?
In Nero you're going to want to select the "Burn CD Image" option (or words to that effect). Then you will get a dialog box asking you where the image is. I think you have to pull down the "filetype" menu and choose *.iso. Once you do that, it should burn. You can test the success of your burn by trying it in any system that can boot a CD.
I burnt and testing a couple recovery Live-CD's. I recorded several last night. Most are just for testing and to give these Live-CD's a trial. They are all FreeBSD recovery based CD's.
From: Snarl, FreeBSDIE, RIP-FBSD, FreeBSD-3.0.iso.bin, Frenzy.
Some of them did not boot, some did boot but the screen was just blank. Possibly due to unsupported hardware configurations.
I have not had any problems booting Solaris8 or 9 on this machine, but I've had OpenBSD boot-disks not even boot on the same machine.
I've also had issues when using the Retail CD from FreeBSD on the same machine with issues booting.
Alot of the times I have had to swap out the CD drive with another.
When you created the CD, did you use DAO (Disk-at-Once) mode?
This would close the session and finalize the CD.