[SPARCbook] Creating a bootable HDD

[Bill Bradford]

On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 12:57:53AM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Why not 'dd' the partitions? Am I missing something obvious?
> Ken

You gotta have the bootsector.  "installboot" is mainly used for restoring
machines from tape - boot single-user off cdrom, partition/newfs the HD
identical to the old one, "ufsrestore" files onto proper partitions from
tape, run "installboot" to put the solaris bootsector stuff onto the HD.

Done it many times.

Bill

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