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Adding a new HDD
Post 302091923 by BOFH on Thursday 5th of October 2006 10:55:03 PM
10-05-2006
For Solaris (I know, big help 
), I run the command touch /reconfigure and then bring down the system. This file (and reboot -- -r or boot -r when starting from the OpenBootProm) tells Solaris to rebuild the device tree when the system comes back up.
I install the drive and then bring the system up. Running format will show me all the drives the system can see. Enter the drive number (0 to the last disk) then the commands p and p to display the partition table information.
Once that's there, I can assign blocks to specific slices, 0 through 7. Once assigned, I enter the command l for label which writes the partition table to the disk. q to quit and q to quit format puts me back to the prompt.
Once the disk partition table has been written, I need to run newfs on the newly allocated slice which puts down a default ufs type file system. I can then mount it to its new home.
Once it's mounted and I know it works, I'll edit /etc/vfstab and add the new mount point so it's mounted upon next boot.
You might check this site: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
With the commands I layed out above, you might be able to figure out the correct SCO commands to use to do the same thing.
Ohhh, a quick google search finds this: http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/HANDBOO...ks_adding.html
This link might be perfect.
Carl
), I run the command touch /reconfigure and then bring down the system. This file (and reboot -- -r or boot -r when starting from the OpenBootProm) tells Solaris to rebuild the device tree when the system comes back up.I install the drive and then bring the system up. Running format will show me all the drives the system can see. Enter the drive number (0 to the last disk) then the commands p and p to display the partition table information.
Once that's there, I can assign blocks to specific slices, 0 through 7. Once assigned, I enter the command l for label which writes the partition table to the disk. q to quit and q to quit format puts me back to the prompt.
Once the disk partition table has been written, I need to run newfs on the newly allocated slice which puts down a default ufs type file system. I can then mount it to its new home.
Once it's mounted and I know it works, I'll edit /etc/vfstab and add the new mount point so it's mounted upon next boot.
You might check this site: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
With the commands I layed out above, you might be able to figure out the correct SCO commands to use to do the same thing.
Ohhh, a quick google search finds this: http://docsrv.sco.com:507/en/HANDBOO...ks_adding.html
This link might be perfect.
Carl
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