how to burn a CD/DVD in solaris8 environment

UNIX Solaris
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Hi, Boss
Now i update my Ultra 10 with a DVD-R/W.
but i do not know how to burn a date DVD or a self-Run iso date.
any body can give me some advice?
like which burner or software can be used in my system?:o BTW,my O/S is Solaris 8

2

Do you mean data DVD?

What is a "self-Run iso date"?

The two main programs that would help are...

mkisofs - for creating the filsystem layout

cdrecord - for writing to a disk

3

"Date DVD" mean is there are some date in DVD disk.
"self-run iso date" mean is after u burn the iso date in a DVD disk, this DVD can self run when u insert to DVD-Rom

4

The two main programs that would help are...

mkisofs - for creating the filsystem layout

cdrecord - for writing to a disk
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i have some puzzle about the burn used the command:

  1. do i need erase the old date on the DVD-R/W disk first?
  2. do i need format the DVD-disk again?
  3. I am very sad beacuse i can not find the "mkisofs" and "cdrecord" command in my system, anywhere can download these 2 package?
5

What do you mean "self run", do you mean bootable?

Freeware for Solaris and look for "cdrtools" and "mkisofs".

6

Yes i mean is bootable.
i was download the cdrtools from that website, after i uncompress and untar this file...i can not find the way to use it! Do u have the user manual? for this tools ?

i check the all file in all directory, did not find the excuter attribute,
-r--r--r-- 1 omc omc 7660 Oct 26 2002 wm_packet.c
-r--r--r-- 1 omc omc 36318 Nov 3 2002 cdrecord.h
-r--r--r-- 1 omc omc 71031 Nov 3 2002 scsi_cdr.c
-r--r--r-- 1 omc omc 17237 Nov 10 2002 diskid.c
-r--r--r-- 1 omc omc 18308 Nov 22 2002 fifo.c

7

Normally you use pkg_add on Solaris to install a set of files from sunfreeware.

You want to make a bootable CD/DVD? Do you know about Jumpstart?

8

hello, porter
thanks for u great support!
but due to i am so weak for install the package.
when i use the pkgadd install the package. there is some error information display.
# pkgadd -d cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- bad format in datastream table-of-contents
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from </home/omc/cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz>
but when i change the commad to
# pkgadd -d .cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- open of <.cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz> failed, errno=2
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from <.cdrtools-2.00.3.tar.gz>

if u free can u help me check and give a advice?

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gunzip and untar the cdrtools package as you have done and you should see a directory structure

pkg_add -d nameofthatdirectory