05-19-2011
Hi,
It sounds like you were very lucky with your recovery but I would be both dubious of relying on this for a production restore and also about how valid the recovery is on your test box for further development on this system.
For the ISO backup you'll find all sorts of problems like the 2GB file limit on VIOS install media meaning the image is split into more than one file, let alone more than one ISO although I suspect it will just create a second ISO for the remaining data. Good luck with that one, please let us know what you find out.
For your bootp issue you'll find VIOS and AIX installs and install media are quite different.
AIX installs from scratch or base filesets with a full base install process but VIOS media actually contains a backup or mksysb that is restored during the VIOS install, much like a mksysb migration of AIX and I suspect the linux bootp VIOS install relies on this.
You could probably create a generic AIX mksysb and use that to deploy AIX in the method suggested but I don't think it will work with AIX install media because the two installs are so completely different.
HTH and good luck, please keep us updated on your progress.
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mkcd
mkcd(1M) System Administration Commands mkcd(1M)
NAME
mkcd - create bootable Solaris ISO image
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/mkcd -v [-l label] media-root iso
DESCRIPTION
The mkcd utility takes media-root (the root of an on-disk Solaris install media) as input and creates a bootable Solaris ISO image in the
file iso, using mkisofs(8). The file can then be burned onto a CD/DVD with utilities such as cdrw(1) or cdrecord(1). (Neither mkisofs(8)
nor cdrecord(1) are SunOS man pages.)
Caution -
The directory tree media-root must contain the file boot/grub/stage2_eltorito, which will be written to the media boot sectors. This file
will be modified with some boot information, thus it must be writable. If necessary, first save a copy prior to running this utility.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-l label
Sets label as the label/volume name of the ISO image.
-v
Verbose. Multiple -v options increase verbosity.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported:
media-root
Top-level directory of an on-disk Solaris install media.
iso
Name of the output file which will contain the resulting ISO image.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 Creating an ISO Image and Burning a CD/DVD
The following commands create an ISO image from the content of s10u1 and burn the image to a CD/DVD.
# /usr/bin/mkcd s10u1 s10u1.iso
# /usr/bin/cdrw -i s10u1.iso
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
cdrw(1), attributes(5)
mkisofs(8), (/usr/share/man/man8/mkisofs.8), in the SUNWfsman package (not a SunOS man page)
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