here you make image of a slice, not disk. for entire disk use /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s2
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 11:50 AM, hadi motamedi <motamed...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear All > I have a working Solaris8 server that I want to make an image from its hard > drive suitable for my qemu-system-sparc on MS Windows . Because of lack of > sufficient free space, I tried to do it as the following : > #dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 bs=512 count=1572864 |gzip > -c>/tmp/solaris8.disk-pt1.gz > #dd if=/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 bs=512 count=1572864 skip=3145728|gzip > -c>/tmp/solaris8.disk-pt2.gz > And so on. > I continued this iteration up to twelve times and then the 'dd' wouldn't > work afterwards . So I decompressed all of them and concatenated to have a > big file . But my qemu cannot boot from it and it seems that the solaris > didn't give me raw access to the disk (as suspected) . To accomplish this, > can you please show me suitable raw disk access for cloning? > Thank you > _______________________________________________ > Solaris-Users mailing list > Solaris-Users@filibeto.org > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users > -- Regards: Romeo Ninov _______________________________________________ Solaris-Users mailing list Solaris-Users@filibeto.org http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users
