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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers wiping system from ok prompt Post 56829 by rhfrommn on Tuesday 12th of October 2004 04:56:42 PM
Old 10-12-2004
This is a Solaris system, right?

If so, once you are at the ok> prompt you can just re-install Solaris. No need to wipe out the hard drive, part of the install will ask you for the layout of your partitions and do the formatting of the disk for you.

If you're doing the install from CD put the cd in and type "boot cdrom" at the ok> prompt. If you have a jumpstart install server on the network and you want to install it that way you would do "boot net - install w" instead.
 

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LAMCLEAN(1)							   LAM COMMANDS 						       LAMCLEAN(1)

NAME
lamclean - Attempt to clean entire LAM system. SYNTAX
lamclean [-hv] OPTIONS
-h Print the command help menu. -v Be verbose. DESCRIPTION
The lamclean command attempts to remove all user processes and messages from all nodes. It also de-allocates all user allocated resources and cancels all user process registrations. This happens by invoking many different remote services which have previously been invoked individually by several other commands. These commands should still be used when partial selective removal of user presence is desired. Otherwise, lamclean is a quick and convenient way of starting over after a bad application run without rebooting the system. lamclean takes the following actions on the following system processes on all nodes: kenyad The LAM SIGUDIE signal (terminate) is sent to all user processes. See doom(1). bufferd The entire daemon is reset to its initial state after booting. See sweep(1). filed All user file descriptors are closed. See fctl(1). traced All traces are removed. See lamtrace(1). lamclean will not succeed if any of the nodes are unreachable due to catastrophic failure or maximum buffer overflow with link jamming. If lamclean does not return, use wipe(1) and lamboot(1) to restart the multicomputer. SEE ALSO
lamboot(1), wipe(1), sweep(1), doom(1), fctl(1), lamtrace(1) LAM 6.5.8 November, 2002 LAMCLEAN(1)
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