solaris and vms23

[darin.marais]

I am trying to install vms 23 on Solaris. I downloaded CD 1 from the Cisco web page and then used the UNIX tool “unzip” to extract the 3 parts into the same directory. Once all the files where inflated, I ran ./setup.sh from the directory. The installation appears to run correctly up until a stage where I receive the following message on the terminal screen:

COPYOUT_INROOT_MB=0

ERROR: The following base package image is bad: CSCOjre2.

ERROR: Package verification failed : CSCOjre2 aborting.

=================================================================

Finished: Fri May 19 16:42:54 MEST 2006

=================================================================

===============- Software Installation Tool Completed -==============

=================================================================

===================- Possible Warnings/Errors Encountered -===================

WARNING: OS Version 5.9 not supported.

WARNING: Results not guaranteed if installed on this version.

ERROR: The following base package image is bad: CSCOjre2.

ERROR: Package verification failed : CSCOjre2 aborting.

Can someone tell me what the problem is?

[darin.marais]

There are three files on the Cisco secure download page:

VMS-23-Solaris-CD1-image-part2-K9.zip

Solaris VMS 2.3 - CD 1- Disk 2 of 3 2.3 05-AUG-2005 149458828

VMS-23-Solaris-CD1-image-part1-K9.zip

Solaris VMS 2.3 - CD 1- Disk 1 of 3 2.3 05-AUG-2005 148829048

VMS-23-Solaris-CD1-image-part3-K9.zip

Solaris VMS 2.3 - CD 1- Disk 3 of 3 2.3 05-AUG-2005 96057195

Should I unzip all these files to a single directory or into separate directories?

After unzipping the files, do I simply copy them to a CD?

Where can I find the instructions required to build a working CD from these files?

Please help!

[darin.marais]

desperate - is there no "solaris dudes" out there that can help answer this trivial question for me?

[tsteger1]

Darin, it "should" be the same process to unzip the files as it is for the Windows version. Your decompression program should recognize that all three are part of a single image (Winzip does this). Perhaps the UNIX tool doesn't know how to do it properly. Have you tried a different tool?

Hope this helps..

Tom S

[darin.marais]

Hi Tom, many many thanks for you reply. zip files that include multiple parts usually are marked with an extention of z01, z02, zip etc>>

And then what? Do you just copy the files to a CD and hope that the Solaris understand the file format that you have chosen. It all sounds like trial and error to me. I am no Solaris guru but what happened to great tools like tar, gzip etc.

On one occasion while I was unzipping the files using wizip 8.1, it prompted me to overwrite files. The error said that the file already existed in the directory and would I like to overwrite it. Usually you would like to avoid this type of thing.

It would be far easier if it where a cd image of sort.

[tsteger1]

Hi Darin, I agree that having an .ISO image would help.

I used Winzip 9.0 to extract the files to a single directory and was prompted only once to replace coreCMFRoleMap.xml (I think that was the file). I did not try to install it because I don't have a Solaris server. It may be your unzip options are not set to use folder names?

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Tom S

[darin.marais]

That is exactly the file that I was prompted for. Thank you for your help. Your information is very useful.