Re: Installing Solaris 9 on Sparcstation 4
Craig Dewick <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.solaris.at-home |
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Aman Bazayev wrote: > > Hi, > > On Saturday, August 16, 2008 at 7:31:30 AM Sandwich Maker wrote: >> 1. something odd must be happening in the 'full' installation. i've >> never had any install off the cd fail to produce a bootable system. > it's not just the 'full' installation; any type except 'core' fails to make > the disk bootable. > >> 2. not booted from the cd, but it's possible to pkgadd(1m) everything >> for the full system off the cd to a running system. common to do >> when you find you forgot something in the initial install or >> requirements change. > i figured it is one option. but does it mean i would have to pkgadd hundreds of > packages one after another in the right order? that's basically my question - > is there a way to pkgadd or run some script and easily update core installation to full? > >> come to think of it, this -is- possible to do booted from the cd - >> just not via the 'install' process. > do you mean 'boot cdrom -s'? i tried that, and tried doing > > #installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0 > > but it did not work.. What errors did it report? Craig. -- Post by Craig Dewick (tm). Web @ "http://lios.apana.org.au/~cdewick". Email 2 "[email protected]". SunShack @ "http://www.sunshack.org" Galleries @ "http://www.sunshack.org/gallery2". Also lots of tech data, etc. Sun Microsystems webring at "http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=sunmicrosystemsu".