Hello

Is there another way to find a copy of SUNWs8brandk other than the Solaris 8 Containers package?

I have a system with Solaris 10 10/8 and need to install containers for an application we have that runs fine on our Solaris 8 box but will not run on Solaris 10. I downloaded the file s8containers-bundle-solaris10-sparc.tar.gz and when I untar it and go to install the package SUNWs8brandk it get checksum errors and it won't install.

The checksum errors appear on the files: copyright, depend, and pkginfo

I checked the download signature with the package and it checked out. It appears that the package SUNWs8brandk in the package is bad.
I assumed that my download was somehow bad and have downloaded the file 3 times over the past 2 weeks each download has the same error.

Please help.
Thank you

I had once a similar problem with a bad patch zip file and I finished up using the .jar file from the signed patch to install it, although I've informed them to replace the bad zip.
So just for curiosity, I've downloaded the s8containers-bundle-solaris10-sparc.tar.gz in a sparc box running Solaris 10 5/08, extracted and followed the instructions in the README, i.e for my Solaris 5/08:
and it complained because SUNWs8brandk wasn't in the current directory. I think it's a "usual" Sun documentation error. They meant to write SUNWs8p2v instead of SUNWs8brandk and to confirm I did a little search and came across this wiki that confirmed my thoughts...

Thank you

I noticed there is a SUNWs8p2v package. The documentation I was reading didn't even mention it. I read the wiki page you pointed to and I like their directions better.

I will update this when I complete the install.
I must admit it find it curious that after a week of being posted on forums.sun.com I did not get an answer. One day here in a Linux forum I get an answer. I like this forum.
Thank you again.

In general Sun wikis are more updated specially regarding new products. And the documentation is better understandable than the one in docs.sun.com...

Regards

I tried to add SUNWs8p2v and got the same error as when I tried to add SUNWs8brandk which is

file size <93> expected <95> actual
file cksum <8258> expected <8284> actual

it complains about the files (copyright, depend, and pkginfo)

The downloaded zip file passes checksum errors but the individual packages included in the zip file are bad.

Can containers be installed without either of those two packages?

How did you get the file, cause I've downloaded from here (after signing-in of course), using firefox and had no problems extracting and installing.
Btw how did you extract the tar.gz file. You can either use the gunzip/tar procedure from the README, or use the gtar (gnu tar) to do it in a single step (gtar zxvf archive.tar.gz).
I don't know if you can install a broken package like the one you mentioned, because at least the depend file is needed to find dependencies.

I got it from the same place. I think that is the only place to get it.
I used "tar xvzf <filename.tar.gz>"

Try gtar xvzf <filename.tar.gz> (use the gnu tar), as the solaris tar doesn't support all the features of gnu tar.
If you don't have it installed, you can

My Mother thanks you,
My Father thanks you,
and I thank you.

Using gtar rather than tar worked perfectly. The packages installed without problem. Go figure!

One last issue I hope.
I followed the directions on the wiki page you pointed me to. I did the

zonecfg -z s8-zone

butwhen I tried to do the

zoneadm -z zone-s8 install -u -a solaris8-image.flar

I get the error zone-s8, no such zone configured. If I do a "zonecfg -z zone-s8 info" it shows the info about the zone and if I do a "zonecfg -z zone-s8" and a create it says zone already exists.

Thank you for all the help you have been.

I cannot help you further, as I have no need to migrate anything for Sol8 to Sol10.
But from the wiki it seems that the error you get is normal:
So please follow the instructions there to the letter, take a look at the comments of other readers and if you have any questions I guess you have to ask the wiki writer.

Give my regards to your mom and dad.

Cheers