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Operating Systems HP-UX Creating a bootable disk in 9.10 Post 302210169 by malcqv on Monday 30th of June 2008 09:02:44 AM

06-30-2008

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Creating a bootable disk in 9.10

I am trying to copy a HP-UX disk. Both the OS and H/W are quite old
HP-UX hpeval3 B.09.10 A 9000/382 080009789a46

I have a 1.5Gb disk and a new 2Gb disk. I have been using the following method to create the copy, which must be a bootable disk.

#mediainit /dev/rdsk/cEd1s0

(2Gb disk) cEd0s0 is the 1.5gb existing boot disk.

#newfs -s 1800000 /dev/rdsk/cEd1s0 SEAGATE_35151N

Remainder for swap (think this is maybe where I am going wrong) I have
Tried without the size option as disktab suggests it will be worked out.
I have defined the disktype in the disktab file which came from the disk supplier see below.

#mount /dev/dsk/cEd1s0 /mnt
#fbackup -o -i / -e /mnt -f - | (cd /mnt; frecover -Xrf -)

I then edit the checklist file on the newly copied disk and change the root disk from cEd0s0 to cEd1s0.

Power cycle, reset & pick the new disk from the list.

It boots up a valid HP OS but fails with no swap space configured.
I am considering doing a dd though this will loose me the extra space, but wondered if I am missing something first?

Entry in disktab:-
SEAGATE_ST32151N:\
:2147.5 MB:ns#30:nt#25:nc#2659:\
:s0#1994752:b0#8192:f0#1024:\
:se#512:rm#5400:

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gnome-disk-image-mounter

GNOME-DISK-IMAGE-MOU(1) 					gnome-disk-utility					   GNOME-DISK-IMAGE-MOU(1)

NAME

       gnome-disk-image-mounter - Attach and mount disk images

SYNOPSIS

       gnome-disk-image-mounter [--writable] [URI...]

DESCRIPTION

       gnome-disk-image-mounter can be used to set up disk images. Both regular files and GVfs URIs (such as smb://filer/media/file.iso) can be
       used in the URI parameter. If no URIs are given and a window server is running, a graphical file chooser will be presented.

       Note that gnome-disk-image-mounter will not mount filesystems or unlock encrypted volumes in the disk image - this responsibility is left
       to the automounter in GNOME Shell to ensure that the same interactions happen as if the disk image was a regular physical device or disc.

       By default the disk images are attached read-only, use the option --writable to change this.

RETURN VALUE

       gnome-disk-image-mounter returns 0 on success and non-zero on failure.

AUTHOR

       Written by David Zeuthen <zeuthen@gmail.com> with a lot of help from many others.

BUGS

       Please send bug reports to either the distribution bug tracker or the upstream bug tracker at
       https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=gnome-disk-utility.

SEE ALSO

       gnome-shell(1), gnome-disks(1), udisks(8), losetup(8)

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