mounting a partition that's located inside a disk (cd) image

[deadpoint]

this one is a little complicated and not at all trivial.

solaris has 3 network installation options JumpStart, ftp and http. 
while it may not seam like it at first glance but the jumpstart method 
is going to be the easiest method. why you ask, because to install 
solaris via ftp and/or http REQUIRES the use of a Flash archive. to make 
a flash archive you need to have solaris installed on an existing server 
and run the flarcreate command. for the jumpstart server you need an 
intall server which has the files copied from the cdrom and a bootp/dhcp 
server.

you can skip the install cd, all you need is software cd's 1 and 2.  you 
can start everything from #1, there are scripts in the Tools directory 
call setup_install_server which copy all the files to a location on you 
hard drive. this scripts should work in linux even though they are 
written for solaris system. there is a script called 
setup_install_client which is used to setup the /etc/ethers, 
/etc/bootparams, and /tftpboot images. again these scripts expect the 
install server to be solaris.

you should be able to mount the cdroms as iso9660. this sounds like a 
fun excersize, if you'd like some assistance let me know!!

Dave Andruczyk wrote:

>This is a tough one, for one of the experts.
>
>I'm trying to get my old ultrasparc 30 up and running to 
>use both solaris 9 and linux on it, but would rather install it
>from the LAN as the CDrom drive it has is a 2X and has problems 
>reading CDR's. 
>
>I downloaded the Solaris 9 OS install CD's from sun, I can mount
>them just fine under linux, but see very little on the install CD,
>4 files, mounted space used is only 320K (via "df"). After digging
>a bit deeper, the CD  (And it's image) are actually setup as a sun
>disk label (sun partition tablem instead of MS-DOS style)  It seems 
>like a second ISO9660 session is on there which is why linux appears
>to mount it, but show only a tiny subset fo what should be there..
>
>What I haven't figured out how to do is mount any of the other 
>partitions so I can extract the kernel and other necessay crap out.
>to net-boot  and install the sparc.  
>
>Output from fdisk -l (list partitions on device)
>
> fdisk -l sol9-1.iso 
>
>Disk sol9-1.iso (Sun disk label): 1 heads, 640 sectors, 2048 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 640 * 512 bytes
>
>     Device Flag    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
>sol9-1.iso1   r         0         1       320    4  SunOS usr
>sol9-1.iso2   r         1      1923    615040    2  SunOS root
>sol9-1.iso3          1923      1931      2560    0  Empty
>sol9-1.iso4          1931      1939      2560    0  Empty
>sol9-1.iso5          1939      1947      2560    0  Empty
>sol9-1.iso6          1947      1955      2560    0  Empty
>
>2 out of 3 of the downloaded ISO's were sun disk format,  the 3rd
>was standard ISO9660 (typically CDRom format...)
>
>Anyone got any ideas??? (Bob?)
>
>
>=====
>Dave J. Andruczyk
>
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