[cs615asa] Solaris and bootstrap issue

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Thu Feb 16 22:39:38 EST 2012


Rob Williams <rwillia2 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> Unfortunately, I think it is impossible for us to get these packages.
> Every site I found mentioned that you need to use the CD. They are
> distributed on the Solaris CD, but since the Oracle acquisition of
> Sun, downloading OpenSolaris ISO is impossible (as of July 2011 the
> "Sun Download Center" is decommissioned). Perhaps there is a
> third-party site where we can get this ISO, but I haven't been able to
> find it.

I haven't looked into this yet, but for the time being please simply
ignore Solaris for this assignment.  It's very disappointing that Oracle
just yanked the plug on the EC2 images, but not much we can do about
that right now.

-Jan
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