[Tyler1989]

I am having some trouble compiling a Solaris 10 DVD what utility can I use to verify a files MD5 checksum and after that how do I combine the five files into a single file.

General procedure for DVD download

The DVD image is broken into five parts. To create a usable image, you
must:

* download the five component files,
* use a utility that understands the ZIP compression format to
unpack each file,
* use a utility that can verify a file's MD5 checksum to confirm
each file has
been successfully downloaded,
* combine these files into a single file,
* use DVD burning software and hardware to copy the ISO image to disk.


Procedure:

1. Download the following component files (listed with their 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



NOTE:

You should verify each file has not been corrupted during its
download via an "mdsum check", which compares your downloaded
file against the checksum of the file on Sun's server. There
are various free utilities to do this available for all popular
operating systems. (In case you're already using a pre-release
version of the Solaris 10 OS, it's worth mentioning that its
built-in "digest" command includes this capability.)


2. Unpack each component file, using a command such as "unzip"

3. Combine the five parts into the DVD image; two examples of how to do
this are given.

For UNIX:
Use the cat command to copy the files in the correct order
into a single file named "sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso"


cat sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-[abcde] > sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso

For Windows:
Use the Copy command with the /b flag to copy the files in the
correct order into a single file named "sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso"

copy /b sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-a + sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-b +
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-c + sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-d +
sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-e sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso

Just as with the individual components, you should verify the file's md5 checksum:

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

You should now have one image ready to be burned to a DVD.

Use the software that supports your DVD burner to create a DVD using this image file (e.g. Roxio Easy Media Creator on a Windows system or the cdrw utility on a Solaris system). Make sure you use the kind of media supported by your DVD burner. There are DVD-R/DVD-RW as well as DVD+R/DVD+RW recordable DVDs. Not all DVD burners support both. Do not use DVD+R DL (dual layer) discs.

[Tyler1989]

how can you find the checksum if you are using a windows platform. I plan to switch to linux again but I'm don't know how to check the checksum in dos.

[Tyler1989]

Windows failed to boot (figures) so I'm now using Fedora Core 4. will this command work in a terminal on linux?

For UNIX:
Use the cat command to copy the files in the correct order
into a single file named "sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso"


cat sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso-[abcde] > sol-10-GA-x86-dvd-iso.iso

[macdude425]

It should.