Creating the ISO Image From Downloaded Segments

Overview

For your convenience in using this feature, instructions from the Download Center are provided here. This document expands on the concatenation information provided in the document Download, Installation, and Configuration Information.

Because a Solaris Express DVD image is large in size, more than 4GB, Sun is offering the DVD image as a compressed (zipped) ISO image. Sun has also broken the DVD image into several segments because many utilities found on the Internet do not function properly with files that exceed 2GB in size. Once downloaded, you can use this images to create a bootable DVD that you then use to install the Solaris Express on one or several computer systems.

Procedure

To reconstitute the full DVD image do the following:

Download all the segments as described in Download, Installation, and Configuration Information
Unzip the individual files
Concatenate the files into a single .iso file

UNIX

When downloading onto a UNIX platform, use the UNIX cat command to concatenate the files, in the correct order, into a single file named solarisexpress.iso, for example. The correct syntax for the cat command is:

cat file1 file2 ... [fileN] > file

where file1, file2, fileN are the download images and file is the .iso file you are creating. The files on the download center have a name ending in .a, .b, and .c . The result is a true ISO image that you can use to burn a DVD. The segments you downloaded cannot be used separately.

Windows

When downloading onto a Windows system, concatenate the unzipped files using the copy command at the command prompt (MS-DOS prompt):

copy /b file1 + file2 [+ fileN] filename.iso

Once the copy is complete, you should have one image ready to be burned to a DVD.

Additional Information