[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Ken Hansen]

Why not 'dd' the partitions? Am I missing something obvious?

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Howick" <howick at siliconmetrics.com>
To: <sparcbook at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD


> Bill, Ken,
>
> We're almost there. The installboot command works great. Now, do you know
of a
> "disk copy" type of command? What's the best way to basically copy what I
have
> on the old drive over to the new drive? If I use "format" to partition the
> drive identically with my current boot drive the system just stripes the
> partitions together (it seems).
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Keith
>
> Bill Bradford wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Bill Bradford * KD5LQR
> >   mrbill at mrbill.net
> >     Austin, TX
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