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Create boot block on Solaris disk

November 22, 2005 – 11:29 pm
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To make a Solaris disk bootable you need to install the boot block on the disk. This should be done, for example, after copying the primary boot disk to the secondary disk.

Solaris boot disk copy

November 20, 2005 – 2:24 am
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A sample procedure for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2 on Solaris 8.

Moving filesystems with ufsdump

November 19, 2005 – 11:22 pm
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to move /opt on new partition (disk or file system)
1) from system prompt: format –> partition –> label
2) newfs -v /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 (target location)
3) mkdir /new_dir
4) mount /dev/dsk/c0t1d0s1 /new_dir
5) cd /new_dir
6) ufsdump 0f – /opt | …