Admintool not Installed

For Solaris 9, you should use  Management Console (smc) instead of admintool.

Please have a look at the following docs for more infor:
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/misc/smc20_faq.html
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/eof/eof.html
http://www.serverwatch.com/stypes/servers/print.php/1402211

if you still want to use admintool have a look at the answer in:
http:Q_21689016.html

PS: Since EE havs unlimit points for  Premium Services, 20 points is too low
      for any question now.

Hi

I'm still having a problem in adding the admintool to my Solaris 9 OS from a cdrom.

please help the error is as follow.

#pkgadd -s . -d /cdrom/Sol-8-204_sparc /Solaris8/Tools/Boot/bin/admintool
pkgadd:ERROR: attempt to process data stream failed
-bad format in data stream table of Contents

Why a C grade?

Please read the following page to learn how to grade at
EE:

https://www.experts-exchange.com/help.jsp#hi73

Thank you!

yuzh

don't use "-s" with pkgadd,

you can do:
cd /path/to/pkg-dir
pkgadd -d pkg-name

or
pkgadd -d /path-to/package-name

man pkgadd
to learn more details

BTW, why not use "smc" ?

My appologies I'm still new to EE.

Anyway I'm still struggling with this problem.
I managed to copy the admintool from the Solaris 8 software disk and followed Yuzh instructions.
I'm getting the error below, now I think the admintool package is corrupted please tell me where I can download one. I failed when trying to look for the package on the net.

pkgadd:ERROR: attempt to process data stream failed
-bad format in data stream table of Contents
Pkgadd:ERROR:could not process data stream from </admintool>

The reason I need admintool installed is because I'll be taking an exam on Solaris 8, I know about SMC and its working fine but need this installed.

Thanks  

Gugumzizan, just out of curiousity - why Solaris 9 x86 under VMware ?

Why not Solaris 10 ?  It's SSSSOOOOO MMMMMUUUUCCCCCCHHHHH Better !!!

Solaris 10 U2 is about to come out in a couple of months and it will include ZFS and the rewritten UDP stack bits.

I'm new on Unix and I want to start by learning Solaris 8 then taking the exams.I do have Solaris 10.
My problem is I need admintool installed on Solaris 9.