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cloning ATAPI drive, SunOs 5.7
I'm trying to image one hard drive to another using SunOs 5.7. I think I've read all of the forum entries that relate to my questions, but I do not find an effective solution to the problem.

after I verified my drives had the same geometry and did my analyze to resolve original read errors on my primary drive

I used dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0d0s2 of=/dev/rdsk/c0d1s2 bs=512k
that completed successfully. I assume from this that I am copying the complete drive over (great!)

From the old system administrators book I am requested to do my file system check, but it advises me to do the raw disk check (fsck /dev/rdsk/c0d1s2), this conflicts from a few different post and I also tried fsck -F ufs -y -o b=32 /dev/dsk/c0d1s0-9 and it seems like it's okay. Actually I am willing to skip the file system check until after I have it mounted

I have been able to mount /dev/dsk/c0d1s0 /mnt (why 0?) but from Command line I haven't figured out how to edit /etc/vfstab, I can see the entries but I don't see how I can edit the entries in CLI

Another step is that I am to boot into single user mode, but "boot is not found".

Just to compare I've spent three sessions on this drive imaging and in 1/4 of one session I was able to install and run Solaris 10 from a usb stick with complete satisfaction, so I'm thinking that I am not understanding how the filesystem in Unix is set up. I sincerely appreciate the help if you are able.
 
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX

hd

HD(4)							     Linux Programmer's Manual							     HD(4)

NAME

       hd - MFM/IDE hard disk devices

DESCRIPTION

       The  hd*  devices  are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode.  The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major
       device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb.  The master drive of the second controller (major device number 22) is hdc and	the  slave
       hdd.

       General	IDE block device names have the form hdX, or hdXP, where X is a letter denoting the physical drive, and P is a number denoting the
       partition on that physical drive.  The first form, hdX, is used to address the whole drive.  Partition numbers are assigned  in	the  order
       the  partitions	are  discovered,  and only nonempty, nonextended partitions get a number.  However, partition numbers 1-4 are given to the
       four partitions described in the MBR (the "primary" partitions), regardless of whether they are unused or extended.  Thus, the first  logi-
       cal  partition  will be hdX5.  Both DOS-type partitioning and BSD-disklabel partitioning are supported.	You can have at most 63 partitions
       on an IDE disk.

       For example, /dev/hda refers to all of the first IDE drive in the system; and /dev/hdb3 refers to the third DOS "primary" partition on  the
       second one.

       They are typically created by:

	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda b 3 0
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda1 b 3 1
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda2 b 3 2
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hda8 b 3 8
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb b 3 64
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb1 b 3 65
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb2 b 3 66
	      ...
	      mknod -m 660 /dev/hdb8 b 3 72
	      chown root:disk /dev/hd*

FILES

       /dev/hd*

SEE ALSO

       chown(1), mknod(1), sd(4), mount(8)

COLOPHON

       This  page is part of release 3.27 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    1992-12-17								     HD(4)