In this case you can use command like: dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0 of=/path/to/save/image.img bs=512 be aware path where you want to save the image should be no part of the disk you make image i.e. no slice of c0t0d0 (of above example)
Regards: Romeo Ninov -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of hadi motamedi Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 9:44 AM To: Solaris-Users mailing list Subject: Re: [Solaris-Users] How to make image from HDD? On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 6:23 AM, Romeo Ninov <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the purpose of this image: backup, archive, P2V? What will be the > media you will create this image: tape, second harddisk, NFS? > > Regards: Romeo Ninov > > > Actually I want to make use of this image as virtual hard drive for my qemu-system-sparc . So I need to get an image from my working Solaris 8 on Sparc platform. I need to get this image as a file ,then I will issue as the following : C:\qemu-system-sparc.exe -nographic -cdrom Solaris8.iso -bios ss5.bin -m 256 -hda HDD-image -serial mon:telnet:127.0.0.1:23,server,nowait Thank you _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
