[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD
Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Fri Sep 29 23:21:07 CDT 2000
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:02:27PM -0500, Keith wrote:
> 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
>From my secret bag-o-tricks:
"man installboot"
Bill
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Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX
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