[SunHELP] root filesystem restore

[Paul Walsh]

> Oh, dear.
>
> The two times I've done it, I've ...
>
> 	formated the disk
> 	labeled the disk
> 	re-installed a minimal Solaris from CD
> 	restored all the files from a backup
>
> I'm sure this is sub-optimal, but it worked fine.

An alternative is to boot to single-user from Software CD 1 (Not the
Install CD), newfs the slice which was the root filesystem, mount it as
/a or /mnt then restore onto it. Shouldn't have to format/label the disk
(unless it's a replacement disk which may need partitioning depending on
the original). Have done it a few times (using ufsrestore) no problem.

Paul