Re: Installing Solaris 9 on Sparcstation 4

Craig Dewick <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.solaris.at-home
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.

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