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Operating Systems Solaris problem with installing Solaris 10 on x86 stand-alone computer Post 70107 by reborg on Monday 25th of April 2005 10:16:53 PM
Old 04-25-2005
it sounds like you burned a copy of the iso onto the cds as files, rather than as an image.
 

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install-solaris(1M)													       install-solaris(1M)

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install-solaris - install the Solaris operating system SYNOPSIS
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