The ufsdump option is great, as long as you are bundling up a single filesystem. If the source machine has a separate /var or /opt filesystem, (or you need to bring over extra filesystems) you won't catch them with ufsdump. In the case of /var and /opt, I have used pax with excellent results, as well as cpio. :)
bill. Asif Iqbal wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Steve Lawrence > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Other archiving options are: >> >> cpio (regular, bzip2-ed, or gzip-ed) >> pax XUSTAR >> ufsdump (level 0) > > So I can take a ufsdump of the whole system and then give that to zoneadm as > a image of the solaris 8 container? Cool I will give that a try next > >> You can also use the directory (-d) approach. Use any archiver/unarchiver, >> and pass the directory containing the extracted archive to zoneadm install >> -d. >> >> -Steve L. >> >> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:18:12PM -0400, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Dan Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> On Fri 08 Aug 2008 at 07:35PM, Asif Iqbal wrote: >>>>> [Fri Aug 8 19:29:08 EDT 2008] Sanity Check: /flash doesn't look >>>>> like a Solaris 8 image. >>>>> >>>>> I must be missing a step or a switch >>>> Yeah, you want to look in the 'flar' manpage for -f: >>>> >>>> -f (Used with split only.) Extract the archive >>>> section into directory called archive, >>>> rather than placing it in a file of the >>>> same name as the section. >>> bash-3.00# flar split -d /flash -f engr.flar >>> uncompress: stdin: corrupt input >>> ERROR: Unable to process archive file //engr.flar. >>> >>> Hehe .. I guess I will try by installing the patches on solaris 8 box >>> as suggested by Steve Lawrence here and then create flash image again. >>> >>> On a related note is it possible to create the image differently and then >>> bring it over to solaris 10, short of using flar create ? >>> >>>> That should do the unpacking of "archive" for you. Or you can just >>>> run "file" on "archive" and see what it is, and unpack it by hand. >>>> >>>> -dp >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Daniel Price - Solaris Kernel Engineering - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - >>>> blogs.sun.com/dp >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Asif Iqbal >>> PGP Key: 0xE62693C5 KeyServer: pgp.mit.edu >>> _______________________________________________ >>> zones-discuss mailing list >>> zones-discuss@opensolaris.org > > > _______________________________________________ zones-discuss mailing list zones-discuss@opensolaris.org
