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i have sun ultra10 machine,OS is solaris 9 and i have single
harddisk, now i want same ,exact copy of data in anoher
harddisk so that i should be able boot from new harddisk,
how do yo do this? is it called as cloning?
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Answer / guest
u will use root mirroring process..
metainit d1 1 1 <existing root slice(c0t0d0s0>
metainit d2 1 1 <new harddisk slice (cot1dos0)
metainit d12 -m d1
metaroot d12
lockfs -af
init6
metattach d12 d2
metastat
installboot /usr/platform/'uname -
i'/lib/fs/ufs/booblk /dev/rdskcot1doso
init 0
ok>nvalias newdisk /phisicalpathname(/pci@1f........)
ok>setenv boot-device disk newdisk
ok>nvstore
ok>boot newdisk
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Answer / sukanta ghosh
The 1st answer is correct, however you need to user fmthard
command to cp disk partition info in order to have exact
disk size.
metainit d1 1 1 <existing root slice(c0t0d0s0>
prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s2
metainit d2 1 1 <new harddisk slice (cot1dos0)
metainit d12 -m d1
metaroot d12
lockfs -af
init6
metattach d12 d2
metastat
installboot /usr/platform/'uname -
i'/lib/fs/ufs/booblk /dev/rdskcot1doso
init 0
ok>nvalias newdisk /phisicalpathname(/pci@1f........)
ok>setenv boot-device disk newdisk
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Answer / mohammed mukram
in the above answer type#/sbin/installgrub /boot/grub/stage1
/boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/cot1doso
instead of installboot ....
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