[Sunhelp] Most issues installing Solaris 8 on SS10.

[Nicholas Dronen]

On Fri, Aug 11, 2000 at 08:54:04AM +0200, Magnus Abrante wrote:
> 
> The kernel can't mount the filesystem because tries to mount it
> from the path where it was on the classic, which is different
> from the one on the SS10.
> 
> Since it cant mount the / file system it never get as far as to 
> the reconfigure.
> 
> Since you cant do a boot cdrom i would instead try a:
> boot -a
> and then specify the path to the physical root device when prompted,
> you can probably figure out which the correct device path is by looking
> at the path to the scsi bus and the choice it will give you.

I've tried that as well as a boot -b and the problem then becomes
that it can't mount the /usr filesystem, which contains all of the
commands that are called from the devlinks script in /etc/init.d.

It leaves me with a mounted root filesystem, but I believe it's
mounted read-only.  (I'll have to test that when I get home tomorrow.)
Can I remount the root filesystem over itself using the -O option?
(I'll have to try that as well.)  If that's the case, I can subject
myself to an ugly, ugly act: boot the Classic from cdrom and put
all of the libraries and programs I need to fix the paths in
/usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc. (that is, in directories beneath
the mount point for /usr).  From there, I can boot disk on
the SS10, let the mount of /usr fail and attempt to create
the new device links.

Regards,

Nick Dronen