Solaris

I am doing a practice restore using a test UNIX(Solaris) system, and a SCSI Hard Drive whose slice 5 contains the Flash Archive file that I need to restore from.

The test system is offline( no network ) and does not have external devices, such as tape drive. My goal is to somehow restore the flash archive to the test system.

What I have done so far is to insert the backup hard drive into the test system, run probe-scsi at the "ok" prompt, and see that it is recognized, which it is.

However, when I boot from the Solaris 10 installation DVD and select "install from flash archive" and then select "local file" , I am at a loss as to how to populate the "file path" field.

Is there a way to make a mount point for the filesystem containing the flash archive, mount it, and then point the installation program to the flash archive file?

From probe-scsi output, here is the device with the desired flash archive file:
Target 2
Unit 0 Disk SEAGATE ST373207LSUN72G 045A 143374738 Blocks, 70007 MB

exit the installation by pressing the mentioned F button (F3 or F5?) and enter the shell. mount you device to /mnt (mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/cXt2d0s5 /mnt; X = your controller number, format should tell you the right number) and then go back to the installation by enter install-solaris (if i remember right?!).
now you can give the path to the archive in the install screen -> /mnt/your_archive.flar

I discovered if I get to the OK prompt, I can type "boot cdrom -s"

it comes up in single user mode, bringing me straight to the root prompt ( no installation app runs )

from there, "iostat -En" got me my flash archive drive's device id, and I mounted it at /tmp/a

Now, I need to figure out how to start the installation program so that can restore from the flash archive on /tmp/a

Any ideas? I've been looking around the installation DVD but haven't found anything similar to autorun. init 5 might do the trick, though.

Anyone? The command to restart the installation is the last piece of the puzzle that I need.

i guess you never read post #2?

I did but that command did not do anything. so perhaps it is different on Solaris 10?

what did the prompt say when you ran install-solaris? im pretty sure that is right too?

did you run it as ./install-solaris and were you in the directory of the cdrom where install-solaris script is? if i am not mistaken i believe it is in the s0 directory of the cdrom. Also, you dont have much of a$PATH setup when you are using the cdrom. Could be that it does not know where the install-solaris script is.