Solaris

It is, provided you select "custom layout" when asked about the disks.

I am not certain of the reasons for your need to scrub your disks. If it is required that no previous data exists on your disks, then what reborg is stating is not sufficient. See the sun doc at ttp://www.sun.com/blueprints/0600/scrub.pdf for further clarification on what I am stating.

if you really want to wipe the drives ... use purge instead of verify as it writes to each sector 4 times plus 1 more for good measure ...


anyways, for the OS install plus disk wipes you have options ...


1. take the "dirty" drives to another box and format them, return them to the original box, and then build with CD or Jumpstart

2. boot the "new" box either through the network or a CD, format the drives, and then install the OS


good luck!

if I do remove the driver (4 pieces) from the server, and format them elsewhere, then when theyre back in the server, would it boot on CDrom by itself? -or is it more like BIOS that I have to set it to boot on cdrom. Since no OS then would be installed I figure that I cant escape to the OK prompt to enter reboot -cdrom.

or am I on the wrong track there?

Absolutely, as I understood it the objective was not to scrub, but merely to remove any visible existing data from the previous install, ie that there would be no old software/files visible. I would still reccommend strongly against doing the disk moves, the less handling a disk gets the better as far as I am concerned.

I would always use an alternate boot media ( CD/DVD/network ) in this situation and maintain custom recovery/wiping images with additional tools for this type of task, but could just as easily do it with the format command in the way suggested by Just Ice. I don't see any reason for transporting the disks to another system to do this.

I would also not recommend moving the disks to another system. It is generally wise to limit the number of power interruptions to the system. You can achieve the scrubing of your root disks by mirroring your root disk (SVM/DiskSuite). Install the OS how you want it. Scrub your second disk then partition the second disk the same as your root disk, make the second disk bootable, and mirror the second disk you can then break the submirror to the first disk scrub it and repeat the process to add it back to the root mirror. Vxvm offers a scrubbing feature but vxvm requires a license.

HI again,

the Solaris 10 was installed successfully, but im suffering from only one disk are in use on the system, when 4 should be the case. The disc in use would be the disc "0" and is only 11 gigs, and its too bad since the other discs are (1x11G + 2x36G). So i really would like them added. How do I do that?

... maybe I did something wrong during the install process, as I recall from installing freeBSD, Im asked to define the mounts and all that, and even, how much of the disks i would like to define for the system...

The question is how I get all offa my disks visible to the system?



ps. Does anyone have experience running free or Open BSD on Sparc64 ?

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regards
Thomas