From: paladin2@comcast.net
Date: Thu Dec 11 2003 - 13:36:04 EST
How do I get Solaris 9 on SPARC to use the boot disk partition table that I have setup prior to beginning the installation?
I have been having a problem trying to do this. I'd appreciate some suggestions on how to get this to work. Thanks!
Problem description:
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I have been trying to install Solaris 9 on a Sun Netra t1 which has two 18GB
disks. Before the install, I changed the partition table of the disk which I want to use as the system disk. The layout that I specified was the following:
format> verify
Primary label contents:
Volume name = < >
ascii name = <SUN18G cyl 7506 alt 2 hd 19 sec 248>
pcyl = 7508
ncyl = 7506
acyl = 2
nhead = 19
nsect = 248
Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks
0 root wm 891 - 5341 10.00GB (4451/0/0) 20973112
1 swap wu 0 - 890 2.00GB (891/0/0) 4198392
2 backup wm 0 - 7505 16.86GB (7506/0/0) 35368272
3 var wm 5342 - 7122 4.00GB (1781/0/0) 8392072
4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0
6 unassigned wm 7397 - 7505 250.79MB (109/0/0) 513608
7 home wm 7123 - 7396 630.41MB (274/0/0) 1291088
During the installation, Solaris wants to re-layout the disk in the following manner:
Disk Size MB Size Cyls
c0t0d0
/ 2848 1237
swap 1026 446
/export/home 13398 5823
During the installation I chose "Entire Group" and "Default Packages".
The installation procedure listed the two available disks and then asked:
Layout file systems on disk c0t0d0 (bootdisk) (y/n) [y]?
Layout file systems on disk c0t1d0 (y/n/e) [n]?
I took both default responses here ...
The installation then stated:
"At least one of the disks selected for installing Solaris software has file
systems or unamed slices that you can choose to preserve. Do you want to
preserve existing data?
Enter y to preserve data or n to skip data preservation. [n]"
I took the default answer [n] here ...
I thought that this would merely create new filesystems from the existing slices in the partition table.
Solaris responded:
"The Solaris Installer is determining size requirements based on your choices
File System operations:
1. Print the current partition table
2. Modify a disk's partition table
3. Return to the beginning
4. Done"
I chose #1 and the following slice layout was listed:
Disk Size MB Size Cyls
c0t0d0
/ 2848 1237
swap 1026 446
/export/home 13398 5823
How do I get solaris during the installation to use the disklabel which I had
already written on the disk prior to the installation? Is there a response which I answered incorrectly and resulted in the existing disklabel being wiped out and a default new one being applied?
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