[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Ken Hansen]

To the best of my knowledge, you simply need to copy the partitions to the
new drive, using something like a 'dd' command I assume (never tried it
myself...)

You shouldn't need to make the drive bootable, instead you would boot
pointing to the new copy of the root partition on you rext. drive...
Remember to adjust all mount references to refer to the new ext. drive,
since the mount commands refer to particular partitions on certain drives on
your controller...

Hope this helps, if not, please let me know where I failed to help...

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith" <keith.howick at ieee.org>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 12:02 AM
Subject: [SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD


> List,
>
> I'm trying to make an external drive bootable. The drive was given to me
> formatted and cleaned (i.e., not a file on it). I can't find
> documentation that tells me what to do and I don't have any Solaris
> disks, just the bootable Sol 2.6 on my Sparcbook 3's internal HDD. Does
> anyone know how to do this? I can run the format program and partition
> the external disk just fine, I simply can't find instructions on how to
> copy the OS and make it bootable.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Keith Howick
>
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