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How do I clone Solaris 7 disk
Post 72879 by 58fairlane on Wednesday 25th of May 2005 10:10:22 AM
05-25-2005
Shane
a simple way to do this is via dd and copying the backup slice, usually slice 3.
boot the system in single user mode from a cd.
if disk one is c0t0d0 ( source)
and disk two is c0t1d0 ( target)
then the command would be ....
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3 bs=2000b
rob.
a simple way to do this is via dd and copying the backup slice, usually slice 3.
boot the system in single user mode from a cd.
if disk one is c0t0d0 ( source)
and disk two is c0t1d0 ( target)
then the command would be ....
dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s3 of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s3 bs=2000b
rob.
Quote:
Originally Posted by obosha
could anyone give me a general idea of how i may clone a 2 Gig disk running Solaris 7 on it to another disk of the same size?
currently, this system only has one disk in it though. i do have the ability to hook up another disk via SCSI.
i have been told i need to boot to "miniroot" to run "dd," but how can i do this? i have searched for help on miniroot but have found nothing that has helped so far. thanks in advance!
shane
currently, this system only has one disk in it though. i do have the ability to hook up another disk via SCSI.
i have been told i need to boot to "miniroot" to run "dd," but how can i do this? i have searched for help on miniroot but have found nothing that has helped so far. thanks in advance!
shane
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