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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users Booting from a DVD? Post 19204 by Kanu77 on Monday 8th of April 2002 06:09:24 AM
Old 04-08-2002
Question Booting from a DVD?

I'm taking delivery of 8 Sun Ultra 10's this afternoon and I have to install SOLARIS 8 on them. SOLARIS 8 is also being delivered on DVD.

My question is : What command at the PROM prompt do I enter to boot from the DVD? Will 'boot cdrom' work or is it simply 'boot dvd'???

i.e

ok boot cdrom

or

ok boot dvd
 

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DARES(1)																  DARES(1)

NAME
dares - rescue files from damaged CDs and DVDs SYNOPSIS
dares -i image -s path [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile] dares-qt [-i image] [-s path] [-h2i h2i_file] [-a] [-m] [-llogfile] DESCRIPTION
Dares scans a CD/DVD image or a CD/DVD and tries to find files. It does not depend on filesystem information, but instead uses the Magic library to identify files. Doing it this way Dares can recover files even when the filesystem (ISO-9660 or UDF) on the disc is damaged and cannot be mounted anymore. Dares can use H2cdimage (ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2cdimage.zip) files to rescue data from heavily damaged optical discs. OPTIONS
-i CD/DVD image file or device. -s Directory where the rescued files shall be stored. -h2i Optional h2i file for the CD/DVD image. -a Store all found files without any user interaction. -m Use Mime types instead of a description. -l Logfile (default: dares.log) AUTHOR
dares was written by Oliver Diedrich <odi@ct.heise.de>. This manual page was written by Michael Hanke <michael.hanke@gmail.com>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Michael Hanke Oktober 2005 DARES(1)
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