How do I create a bootable BCWipe for UNIX DVD to work on a SPARC system?

Booting the systems from the install disk is the easiest way to get the system up and running on the miniroot. The miniroot comes with enough tools to erase the disk. If simple erasing isn't enough, you could transfer the BCwipe program
over the network.

If you have your heart set on making a bootable disk with BCwipe pre-installed, look at this:

http://www.lka.ch/projects/solcdburn/solcdburn.html

Hi blu,

Unfortunately, I am unable to view the site from behind my company's firewall... restrictions... I found another site that provided instruction on how to create a bootable Solaris CD (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/custom_boot_cdrom.html)... Although I am almost done, I am stuck with a mkisofs issue.....

Whenever I run the mkisofs command, I receive a error message that is pointing to the filename that I indicated (-sparc-boot).  This is indicated after the -l option.  Do you happen to know why and how I may proceed with creating an ISO file of 5 image files?  Please see below of the command that I used..

mkisofs -R -d -L -l -sparc-boot new_s1.img,s2.img,s3.img,s4.img,s5.img -o sol9_boot.iso ./s0

In return, I receive an error message (please see below)

mkisofs: unrecognized option `-sparc-boot'

The instruction from the Sun site (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/custom_boot_cdrom.html) included the "-sparc-boot" notation after the "-l" option.  Please assist whenever you have an opportunity.

Thank you.

What OS and rev are you running mkisofs on? What do you get when you run "which mkisofs"?

Hi blu,

I am using mkisofs on a Solari8 SPARC system.  When I run the "which mkisofs" command, it is pointing to the /usr/bin/mkisofs file.

I will give that a try...