[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Keith Howick]

No, but I am! I just read the man page for "dd". I'm using "dd
if=/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t2d0s0" and so on through each partition.
It looks like it's working OK! I'm just not familiar with the command. My
apologies.

Thanks!

-Keith

Ken Hansen wrote:

> 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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