[SunHELP] Migrating from one workstation to another

[fabio]

Christopher Singleton wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
>           I have a Sun Blade 150 running Solaris 9.  I am considering a 
> purchase of a used Sun Blade 2000 and upgrading from the 150 to the 2000 
> as we could really use the computing power.  Two questions, the first 
> one is:
>
> A)  Can you simply swap out the hard disk on the 150 and put it in the 
> 2000, and have everything run fine?
>
>   
no, blade 2000 uses FC-AL Disks
> B)  If I wanted to keep the old SB 150 with everything intact as a 
> backup, how involved is the process to mirror the entire HDD onto the 
> 2000, copying absolutely everything?  Has anyone done this before, was 
> it worth the time? 
>
>   
You have to make the appropiate filesystems and make the system bootable 
with a *great* change of screw up everything

Back your important data and make a fresh install of solaris on blade 2000.


> Thanks in advance, I appreciate any help I can get.
>
>
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>                            Chris
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