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Operating Systems AIX bootable mksysb image on Post 302590773 by asyed123 on Tuesday 17th of January 2012 01:22:40 PM
Old 01-17-2012
bootable mksysb image on

i have been given a bootable cd/dvd, that i install a ibm aix 185 workstation with, i want to make a nim mksysb resource from that,

the following is a listing for the root file structure of the cd/dvd, seems someone took a mksysb of a built ibm aix machine and did mkcd -L -S -I and setup the disk image and burned the disk.

Code:
total 72
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:42 ppc
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 60 Jan 17 10:42 mkcd.data
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:42 ismp
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:42 installp
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 10001 Jan 17 10:42 image.data
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 5826 Jan 17 10:42 bosinst.data
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:42 RPMS
-r--r--r-- 1 root system 24 Jan 17 10:42 OSLEVEL
dr-xr-xr-x 4 root system 256 Jan 17 10:42 root
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:43 udi
dr-xr-xr-x 3 root system 256 Jan 17 10:43 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 10 root system 4096 Jan 17 10:43 .
dr-xr-xr-x 9 root system 256 Jan 17 10:43 usr
drwxrwxr-x 17 root system 4096 Jan 17 12:54 ..

my nim wants me to have a full mksysb, i found file on the cd/dvd under the
/export/test/usr/sys/inst.images/mksysb_image, when i run the mkcd on this file this is the error i get in the mkcd.log
Code:
cmd: mkcd -L -S -I /export/iso -m /export/test/usr/sys/inst.images/mksysb_image
Initializing mkcd log: /var/adm/ras/mkcd.log...
Verifying command parameters...
Creating temporary file system: /mkcd/cd_fs...
Populating the CD or DVD file system...
0512-300 mkcd: Error in routine: populate_cd_fs.
0512-321 mkcd: Error populating the CD or DVD file system
using the /usr/lpp/bosinst/cdfs.required.list proto file.
Cleaning up...
Removing temporary file system: /mkcd/cd_fs...

i tried to make a mksysb from built box, but get errors referring to linked files, and it cannot finish because of the linked file,

can anyone help

ab

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root_archive(1M)					  System Administration Commands					  root_archive(1M)

NAME
root_archive - manage bootable miniroot archives SYNOPSIS
/boot/solaris/bin/root_archive pack archive root /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive unpack archive root /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive packmedia solaris_image root /boot/solaris/bin/root_archive unpackmedia solaris_image root DESCRIPTION
The root_archive utility is used to manage bootable miniroot archives and is currently only available on x86 platforms. The utility can pack and unpack boot/root archives in both ufs and hsfs (iso9660) format. It will always generate ufs archives. root_archive also uses the lofi file driver to export a file as a block device (see lofi(7D)) and mount to mount or unmount file systems and remote resources (see mount(1M)). root_archive requires the same privileges that are needed to run these commands. SUBCOMMANDS
The root_archive command has the following subcommands: pack archive root Pack from the image found under the root directory to the archive. unpack archive root Unpack from the archive to an unpacked image under the root directory. packmedia solaris_image root Pack the solaris image to the root directory. unpackmedia solaris_image root Unpack the solaris image from the root directory. For packmedia and unpackmedia, other items that do not go into the ramdisk image are copied or uncopied (see cpio(1)) as well. Specifi- cally, this includes all the packaging databases needed for pkgadd and the other packaging utilities to succeed which are not used in the running and hence pruned to conserve memory. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Unpacking the Solaris x86 install image The following command unpacks the current Solaris image from the root directory: # root_archive unpackmedia /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot Where /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest represents a path to a Solaris x86 install image and /export/Boot is a directory that will be purged or created, as necessary. Example 2 Packing the Solaris x86 install image The following command packs the current Solaris image to the root directory: # root_archive packmedia /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvx_dvd/latest /export/Boot EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned: 0 The command completed successfully. 1 The command exited due to an error. ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Availability |SUNWcsu | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Stable | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
cpio(1), bootadm(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5), lofi(7D) SunOS 5.11 26 Sep 2005 root_archive(1M)
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