FREE!!! Solaris 10 from Sun Microsystems...

[ViRaL1]

The new Solaris 10 operating system integrates so many innovative and valuable capabilities, it's in a class by itself - and it's free. You can download it to your x64/x86 or SPARC system right now for free under our simple Right to Use (RTU) license. If you haven't registered, you will be asked to do so as part of the process.

If you haven't read about the powerful and sophisticated new capabilities of Solaris 10, take a look at what you're getting for free!

Tired of Burning Multiple CDs? Burn One DVD Instead.

Solaris 10 will fill several CDs, but it fits on a single DVD. Now you have a choice. Go to the Solaris 10 Download Instructions page to learn more.

LEGAL NOTICE: To receive your free Solaris 10 license, you must register all machines upon which you are installing Solaris 10 and receive an Entitlement Document. Registration is performed in the download process, and the Entitlement Document is returned to you via email.

YOU MUST PROVIDE A WORKING EMAIL ADDRESS IN YOUR SUN DOWNLOAD CENTER REGISTRATION OR YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE THE ENTITLEMENT DOCUMENT. IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE AN ENTITLEMENT DOCUMENT, YOU ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO EVALUATE SOLARIS 10 FOR 90 DAYS.

If you install Solaris 10 on additional machines, you must go back to the Sun Download Center, register those machines, and receive an additional entitlement document.

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp

[BJ_M]

yes -- they have been doing this for some time

[ViRaL1]

Now everyone can stop whining about Window$. I've downloaded Solaris since 7 or 8 but I've never gotten around to loading it up. I've finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go after I get the DVD downloaded and burned. Have you tried it?

[freestyler]

what benefits does this operating system offer?

[ViRaL1]

Did I mention FREE??? :P Well, it's (somewhat) open source from what I understand. More here...

http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/

[BJ_M]

solaris is NOT open source by any means --

unless you are just running a web server -- not going to be a lot of help for you , or StarOffice 7

[Garibaldi]

What about Solaris vs Linux or *BSD. They are all free and unix based. What is Solaris's advantages over linux. Also is there a Solaris live-cd out, I'd like to give that a try first before I install. It sounds interesting though!

[BJ_M]

Solaris's advantages over linux.- well ...

it has been around longer and is known for running on SUN systems

[ViRaL1]

My mistake, they're opening it. The full open version will be released in Q2 under OpenSolaris.

[Garibaldi]

Solaris's advantages over linux.- well ...

it has been around longer and is known for running on SUN systems

I mean on x86 machines, since I don't have a sparc.

[BJ_M]

ahh - ok


cus they have a secure version called Solaris 8 secure or something that is not open source for sure ...

[ViRaL1]

Apparently I don't speak Sun®.

I downloaded the 5 parts of the DVD ISO as well as the 'DVD Assembly Instructions' which read as follows...


Re-Assembly Instructions for sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso


Required component files and md5 check sums:
===========================================
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-a.zip 1acfdb660195315c4601a847bbe74e91
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-b.zip 14675308b655a02a14bd81791dd59a16
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-c.zip 4aacf120a4ad13edacb768730acf49ba
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-d.zip 8ab774b27cf4c2c04281c7cfd0b8bb72
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-e.zip da9f502e9fa3857876b3ea245cc355c8





Gather and unzip all required component files.

Then concatentate all unzipped files into one
single file named sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso.


The combined file should have an md5sum value of:

sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso d7b6f773519c1caaafb57100d428a0e3


REQUIREMENTS:

Operating System and utility support of large files (>2GB).

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I've already unzipped all the files into one folder, but I don't know how I concatenate them.

TIA

[BJ_M]

in a command window (with windows)

copy file1+file2+file3+file4+file5 newfile /B

or you could have used winrar or winzip

[ViRaL1]

Gotcha. Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a shot.

[ViRaL1]

I think I got the syntax correct, but it's only yielding a 598MB file for 5 400MB+ files. How would I do it with WinZip or WinRAR?

[BJ_M]

are they all in the same directory ? did name the location correctly ?

easier is to put all files in root .. then you dont have to worry about location ....


did you forget the "/b" ?


copy /b file1+file2........file5 newfile /b (last b optional - adds end charactor needed for some files)

see here http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/copy.mspx

[ViRaL1]

OK, I got it now. I had the /b but I had looked at the help file thinking I needed spaces...then I read further down the page. Thanks for the help.