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Diskette in DOS/Windows?

April 26, 2017diskette dos Windows

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Diskette in DOS/Windows?

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The DCA diskette is used for booting, in lieu of booting from CDROM or hard disk. The DCA diskette comes with the Solaris media, but you need to “roll your own” if you downloaded Solaris or if your DCA diskette becomes corrupted. To create the diskette, follow these steps: 1. Download DOS program dd.exe, which is used to write the DCA image, from http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/drivers/dca_diskettes/ or ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/sun/solaris/x86/dd.exe (Example: dd S8_1001.3 a You can also use the DOS rawrite.exe utility provided with Linux distributions (usually under the boot diskette directory). 2. Download the DCA diskette image for the Solaris x86 version that you want to install (for example, S8_0101.3) from http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/drivers/dca_diskettes/) A DCA boot floppy image is also on the “Software 2 of 2” CD, in the Solaris_9/Tools subdirectory. 3. Run dd.exe to copy the image to the floppy diskette: dd.exe a: You have now created a (bootable) Solaris DCA di

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The DCA diskette is used for booting, in lieu of booting from CDROM or hard disk. The DCA diskette comes with the Solaris media, but you need to “roll your own” if you downloaded Solaris or if your DCA diskette becomes corrupted. To create the diskette, follow these steps: 1. Download DOS program dd.exe, which is used to write the DCA image, from http://SolDC.Sun.COM/support/drivers/tools/ or ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/sun/solaris/x86/dd.exe 2. Download the DCA diskette image for the Solaris x86 version that you want to install (for example, S8_0101.3) from http://SolDC.Sun.COM/support/drivers/dca_diskettes/ 3. Run dd.exe to copy the image to the floppy diskette: dd.exe a: You have now created a (bootable) Solaris DCA diskette. [Thanks to Sean G.W.

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The DCA diskette is used for booting, in lieu of booting from CDROM or hard disk. The DCA diskette comes with the Solaris media, but you need to “roll your own” if you downloaded Solaris or if your DCA diskette becomes corrupted. To create the diskette, follow these steps: 1. Download DOS program dd.exe, which is used to write the DCA image, from http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/drivers/dca_diskettes/ or ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/sun/solaris/x86/dd.exe (Example: dd S8_1001.3 a:) You can also use the DOS rawrite.exe utility provided with Linux distributions (usually under the boot diskette directory). 2. Download the DCA diskette image for the Solaris x86 version that you want to install (for example, S8_0101.3) from http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/drivers/dca_diskettes/) A DCA boot floppy image is also on the “Software 2 of 2” CD, in the Solaris_9/Tools subdirectory. 3. Run dd.exe to copy the image to the floppy diskette: dd.exe a: You have now created a (bootable) Solaris DCA