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Craig Dewick wrote:

> 
> Hi everyone I'm trying to do a Solaris 10 install onto an Ultra 60 
> system which has a normal CD-ROM drive.
> 
> All has gone well (after learning a few tricks which can crash the 
> installation process) but now that all the selected software of the 4 
> main CD's has been loaded, I'm being asked to put in a Documentation 
> disk, and the only one I've got as a DVD format one. The box of CD's 
> didn't include a documentation CD, and when I tried the documentation 
> DVD the CD-ROM drive was able to accept it happily but I'm guessing that 
> the data can't be read off the DVD so I keep getting an error box and 
> going back to the same 'insert Documentation disk' part of the install 
> again.
> 
> Is there any way around this, given that I don't have a SCSI DVD-ROM 
> drive on hand? I'm going to cancel the installation and start from 
> scratch again but customise the packages and de-select anything relating 
> to documentation (are the man page packages on the documentation dvd or 
> one of the 4 main CD's?) to see if that prevents the install asking for 
> something that doesn't exist!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Craig.
> 
Just tell it to skip the disk, it's not overly important.

Well, that is just MHO, but if it _was_ important there would be a 
downloadable ISO for CD, wouldn't it?

None of the machines I have installed or upgraded have had any problems 
not having whatever is on the Documentation DVD available.  But I'm 
still debating buying a media kit just to have it.

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)

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