Newbie: Sun Ultra 5 Disk Replacement

kalm · #1 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005

I have just started getting into unix and aquired a Sun Ultra 5 however the disk failed and I want to replace it with a spare maxtor 40Gb i have lying around. I need to partition and format the disk from its old windows format. I have looked up info on the format command in solaris 9 and I think i can partiotion the disk but i am not sure about formatting as it says the the format option within the format command only works with SCSI disks not IDE. can anyone help???

pressy · #2 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005

that's a small missunderstanding between the win-word format and the solaris-word format. windows say to the creation of a filesystem formating in unix it is called like what it does: make a new filesystem

take a look at:
man newfs

greetings PRESSY

kalm · #3 (**permalink**) 06-30-2005

Thanks for the quick reply pressy and thanks for the grammer lesson. I will look man newfs up.

Many Thanks
kalm

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