: i've got a working solaris 5.4 system on a sparc 5, 80MB,
: and want to upgrade to solaris 5.6, but very carefully
: my motto has become, if it ain't broke, don't break it
I think you mean Solaris 2.4 and 2.6.
: the present disk, disk 3, is partitioned into 5 main parts,
: /, /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s0, 2,077,239 kb
: /home, 7, 255,859
: /prt0, 4, 1,951,188
: /prt1, 5, 1,951,188
: /prt1, 6, 1,951,188
: mostly through laziness, fear of repartitioning,
: and the fact that i've never been able to get
: the DAT DDS-2 tape drive to work right with the dump routine
:
: the 'new' disk is a 2 GB *, formatable, etc
: called /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s... or disk 2
:
: what i want to do is partition the 'new' disk2,
: copy disk3's / directory onto it with correctly changed links
: set the 'new' one as startup using eeprom boot-device=disk2
: so i can boot off disk 2 and have a still working system
While I don't know what you mean by 'links' in this contex,
you could partition disk2, newfs the partitions and then
use ufsdump | ufsrestore to directly clone the filesystems.
You'll need to run installboot on the new root filesystem,
as well as edit the new vfstab to point to the right
devices files for the filesystems you copied to disk2.
: then i'll boot off the cd containing the 5.6 installer
: update the new disk2 / partition to 5.6,
: and see what wonders lie in store for me
: when i reboot off of the newly upgraded disk2.
If you're just going to do a new install on disk2, why bother
copying the filesystem onto it first? Just let Solaris install
to disk2, leaving disk3 alone. Once you've got the 2.6 install
up and running, you can then mount the /home, and /prt[0-2]
filesystems from disk3. You'll still have the existing 2.4
installation on slice 0 of disk3 waiting for you if you feel
the need to boot the machine under 2.4.
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