> > Hi all, > Is it possible to create a Solaris restore disk floppy so that I could > restore my Solaris box unattended. I can do it manually using boot -s using > CDROM but the system that I am using doesn't have a CDROM (Compaq slimeline) > and I would prefer to automate the process with a floppy. If a really need > to I could find a CDROM somewhere for a few dollars.
There's no version of Solaris that is going to boot from a floppy that I know of. Maybe something deep in engineering, but it's getting hard enough to fit it on a CD these days. > I also tried ghost/dos to restore partition but the process would take 3-5 > hours from DVD as this would be a sector copy - although there is less then > 500M of data in use. Wait, you don't have a CD but you do have a DVD? Doesn't the DVD read CDs? Certainly you're not fitting the 500M on the floppy. Can you boot from whatever the data is coming over on? > Another way I thought of would be a busybox linux, compiled with UFS solaris > filesystem into kernel but I don't think that there is a ufsrestore for > linux. That could probably work. > newfs /c0d0s0 > mkdir /tmp/home > mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d0s1 /tmp/home > mkdir /tmp/rt > mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /tmp/rt > cd /tmp/rt > #check MD5 Hash if good carry on else loop beeps > #also encrypt and compress when get round to > ufsrestore xf /tmp/home/root001.img So you're just copying from one disk partition to another? Could that partition be big enough to be bootable as well as hold the image? -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
