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Old 11-28-2007
how to recover system file
Hi everyone

I have a sun fire v880 server there having a system file problem it gets currupted. i haven't taken backup of that.i want to recover system file. i have not any tape drive ,CDDRIVE & machine is also not in network. so how i can recover system file. Is there any procedure for that or any command.
anyone having idea abt that plz help me


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prakash
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Old 11-28-2007
Depends on your OS but on solaris systems with a bootprom you can simply delete the system file (or rename it) and do a boot -p to recreate it.
 
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