disk cloning?
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From: Andrew Gabriel on 1 Aug 2010 04:05 In article <01aa7e91-b222-476c-a275-4f0b2964b56e(a)t11g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, hadi motamedi <motamedi24(a)gmail.com> writes: > On Aug 1, 9:13�am, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> On 08/ 1/10 05:02 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >> >> > I have run installboot on it. Can you please confirm if solaris8 >> > supports booting from usb disk? >> >> It's so old I can't remember, but if I had to guess, id say no. �As I >> said elsewhere, USB support on Solaris 8 is poor. > Excuse me,I mean how to boot from the usb disk at the 'ok' prompt, > when the IDE disk is pulled out? You can't. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup]
From: Chris Ridd on 1 Aug 2010 05:23 On 2010-08-01 09:05:17 +0100, Andrew Gabriel said: > In article <01aa7e91-b222-476c-a275-4f0b2964b56e(a)t11g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, > hadi motamedi <motamedi24(a)gmail.com> writes: >> On Aug 1, 9:13�am, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>> On 08/ 1/10 05:02 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >>> >>>> I have run installboot on it. Can you please confirm if solaris8 >>>> supports booting from usb disk? >>> >>> It's so old I can't remember, but if I had to guess, id say no. �As I >>> said elsewhere, USB support on Solaris 8 is poor. >> Excuse me,I mean how to boot from the usb disk at the 'ok' prompt, >> when the IDE disk is pulled out? > > You can't. Is that an OpenFirmware (OpenBoot) limitation, or a Solaris one? -- Chris
From: Andrew Gabriel on 1 Aug 2010 18:06
In article <8bksp7FgafU1(a)mid.individual.net>, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> writes: > On 2010-08-01 09:05:17 +0100, Andrew Gabriel said: > >> In article <01aa7e91-b222-476c-a275-4f0b2964b56e(a)t11g2000vbj.googlegroups.com>, >> hadi motamedi <motamedi24(a)gmail.com> writes: >>> On Aug 1, 9:13�am, Ian Collins <ian-n...(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 08/ 1/10 05:02 PM, hadi motamedi wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have run installboot on it. Can you please confirm if solaris8 >>>>> supports booting from usb disk? >>>> >>>> It's so old I can't remember, but if I had to guess, id say no. �As I >>>> said elsewhere, USB support on Solaris 8 is poor. >>> Excuse me,I mean how to boot from the usb disk at the 'ok' prompt, >>> when the IDE disk is pulled out? >> >> You can't. > > Is that an OpenFirmware (OpenBoot) limitation, or a Solaris one? You would either need a USB card with openfirmware, or direct support in openboot. I don't believe any system which can run Solaris 8 has this, and I've never heard of an openfirmware USB card. Also, I don't think Solaris has support for USB booting until newboot, which was introduced in S10U6 on sparc, IIRC. This isn't an area I've played with though, so I may be wrong. -- Andrew Gabriel [email address is not usable -- followup in the newsgroup] |