[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Keith Howick]

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
>
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