From: David Foster (foster@ncmir.ucsd.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 18:00:40 EDT
I would just like to announce that I am a dork.
When I set up my partitions I left out defining
a swap partition, doh!
And of course the mini-root gets installed on the
swap partition, ie. /dev/rsd3b
Is it Friday yet??
Dave Foster
Thanks to:
Thad MacMillan
David Markowitz
Robert Falen
Rick Kelley (honorable mention!)
Matthew Stier
David Foster wrote:
> I have a Sparc10 running SunOS 4.1.4 (legacy hardware) whose hard
> drive died, I put in new drive, partitioned it, created
> filesystems, restored partitions from 'dump' files backups (just
> posted summary on this procedure recently).
>
> Now I need to run 'installboot' so I can boot from the disk. When
> I'm booted from the SunOS 4.1.2 CD (all I have), it doesn't have
> a 'mount' or 'installboot' command. If I could at least use 'mount'
> I could access the 'installboot' from the system disk itself.
>
> I see one option is to install a mini-root, but it seems like this
> is going to install on the disk I've just restored...is this a
> non-destructive install, or there a way to specify to install the
> mini-root on a certain partition? I do have a spare.
>
> I'm quite stuck, any help appreciated.
>
> Dave Foster
>
>
>
>
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IT Manager, Programmer University of California, San Diego
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(858) 534-7968 http://ncmir.ucsd.edu/
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persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress
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