: We just got a new 4GB drive to swap out for our Micropolis 1.7GB for
: Solaris x86 2.4. I hooked it up as SCSI unit 1 and did an fdisk on it
ahem....never mind...
If anybody else has this problem.
(1) Run newfs on your root partition because doing an installboot to
it trashes it. Then copy your filesystem over to it. Notice that
your root partition doesnt start at cylinder 0.
(2) Run installboot again but this time write it to the "boot" partition.
(Yep..that 1.2MB thingy near the end of your partition map.) Even
though the boot partition occupies cylinder 0, it occurrs near the
end of the partition map. Don't ask me why.
I figured this out by trial and error. In retrospect I could have found
it a little faster by reading the 'boot' man page very carefully and then
reading the partition map very carefully.
This is probably detailed in the Sun Answerbook. Thanks again Sun for
not including it in the $695 package. I noticed that the student price for
answerbook is about $49. I guess this is slightly over cost for you.
Its so intelligent to not include the system anwerbook so that your
support people get plagued by straightforward support calls that no doubt
cost your company significantly more than $49.
Marketing strategy at its most brilliant.
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Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government
of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?
Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let
history answer this question. -Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inagural Addr