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Old 12-05-2006
How to create a disk image

I have a whole bunch of solaris machines. How do i create an image so i dont have to keep doing a reload and. In the pC world we have ghost what about the solaris world?
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Old 12-05-2006
read the manpage about "flar" and "flarcreate".

hth,
DN2
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Old 12-05-2006
The guide about Solaris Flash Archives might be useful as well.

http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-5779

Darwin
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Old 12-05-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by frankkahle
I have a whole bunch of solaris machines. How do i create an image so i dont have to keep doing a reload and. In the pC world we have ghost what about the solaris world?
You might want to take a look at LVM snapshot's

there is some more info on: http://arstechnica.com/articles/colu...x-20041013.ars

You also might want to google some things about it and decide if this is what you want.
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