How to clone enter harddisk on Sun Sparc20?


 
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# 8  
Old 12-07-2009
@jlliagre
i don't know what OS i have, how can i see it?
anyways i went to ok prompt by STOP+D then an error appears
"Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet" in loop
so i press STOP+A to show ok prompt
the boot-disk = disk, but if i let it boot by itself it will go straigth to OHIO software.

@incredible
how to become a superuser?
what do you mean by this on number 3: # touch /reconfigure
what do you mean by this on number 4: # init 0
# 9  
Old 12-07-2009
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Originally Posted by Ron Macam
@jlliagre
i don't know what OS i have, how can i see it?
You need to have the OS booted successfully then run "cat /etc/release" and/or "uname -a".
Quote:
anyways i went to ok prompt by STOP+D then an error appears
"Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet" in loop
so i press STOP+A to show ok prompt
Being in the boot prom monitor isn't going to allow any dd or other shell command to happen.
Quote:
the boot-disk = disk, but if i let it boot by itself it will go straigth to OHIO software.
What's OHIO software ?
# 10  
Old 12-07-2009
Quote:
You need to have the OS booted successfully then run "cat /etc/release" and/or "uname -a".
is this how you become a superuser?

this is what OHIO software

sorry for the few info, right now i'm at home, but tomorrow i'll take picture of it for more in-depth info.
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# 11  
Old 12-08-2009
after the boot up, this software automatically shows, how can i go to openboot?
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# 12  
Old 12-08-2009
Ouch, you are using SunOS 4.1.1 ... anyway, what about asking Matt Daetwyler Corp. ?
It seems you are using that box as an appliance and any advice to unlock it might breach your license.
# 13  
Old 12-08-2009
They don't support anymore this hardware/software. You can get thier tech support if you buy a new line on what they are offering.

That's why i was thinking of just cloning the entire harddisk for me to have a backup.

So is there anyway, we can do it?
# 14  
Old 12-08-2009
You need to boot in single user mode and clone the disks as already suggested.

The tricky parts will be how to boot in single user mode with such an old open boot prom (possibly "boot -s" at the ok prompt if you have one), how to have your new disk recognized (cd /dev;MAKEDEV ?) and what device names to use (something like dd if=/dev/sd0c of=/dev/sd1c bs=256k).
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