Using Solaris 2.6 x86 for multi-OS installation

Using Solaris 2.6 x86 for multi-OS installation

Post by Ronan KERYEL » Wed, 23 Sep 1998 04:00:00



Now that I have a full-fledged installation procedure with JumpStart and GNU
cfengine, I'm thinking to use this for our new course room installation
with 15 PCs with 4 different OS on them:
- Solaris 2.6 x86
- Linux
- Windows 98
- Windows NT

Solaris is installed with JumpStart, Linux can be installed with the RedHat
kickstart and I think to install the MicroSoft ones with a raw copy of 2
partitions after a correct fdisk from Solaris for example.

My main issue is how to access other fdisk partitions. The cmdk man talk
about the /dev/rdsk/*p[0-4].

Has anybody played with some dd if/of=/dev/rdsk/*p[0-4] ?
Does it make sense ?

Thank you,
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I was going to use this hard drive to move large files from my
Ultra to my Pentium PC for CD-R backup, but upon "boot -r" on
the Ultra I saw an error about "invalid geometry" on sd3, the
drive I had formatted on my PC to be ufs.  And now of course
I can't even "prtvtoc" this disk ("Unable to read Disk geometry"),
so mounting it is seemingly out of the question.

What's the problem?  Was I naive to assume the a ufs on a Solaris
system would be the same regardless of CPU type?  I really don't
want to use Ethernet to transmit potentially gigabytes of data
on a regular basis :-(...

Please reply via email (and post here, of course), as I don't
get a chance to keep up with the newsgroup as regularly as I
would wish.  Thanks.

--
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Mark J. Kaufman             Sun Microsystems, San Diego

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