[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Bill Bradford]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:53:25PM -0500, Keith Howick wrote:
> 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

You can either use "ufsdump" to dump stuff to tape and then restore to the
new partitions, or if the new disk is IDENTICAL partition-wise to the old one,
use "dd" to duplicate the partitions, then run "installboot" to make the 
/ partition of the new drive bootable, etc.

bill

> 
> 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
> >
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> >     Austin, TX
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