Re: disk mounting/Solaris 9 "preserve data" install option

From: Mario D'Angelo (mariodangelo_at_sbcglobal.net)
Date: 10/01/03

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    Situation resolved...

    M

    "Mario D'Angelo" <mariodangelo@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
    news:dM8eb.7826$6D.6995@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com...
    >
    > Hi,
    >
    > I feel like the little kid with the dunce cap in the corner as I try to
    > remember some
    > of this procedural information and as such would appreciate anyone's
    > knowledgeable assistance.
    >
    > I'm trying to add a couple of external disk drives with precious data that
    I
    > don't
    > want to gamble with and as such don't feel confident in the google search
    > results that describe
    > the process for AIX/IBM RS6000 as well as Linux given the different flavor
    > differences.
    > I've also tried the docs.sun.com site but it seems a bit tangled to find
    > something like this through it's search or menu features.
    >
    > What *have* tried is : rebooting with boot -r at the ok prompt after
    > touch(ing) .reconfigure as root and
    > thereafter attempted using newfs after making sure the bus could see the
    > drives (set as
    > scsi 5 & 7) using probe-scsi but I'm unfamiliar with the details, hence my
    > non-success as of yet. Is there a good end-all, be-all source that would
    > step a user through the process of adding a couple of drives without
    > tampering with the contents while also showing/describing how to address a
    > drive using the /dev/rdsk/cxtxdxsx nomenclature?
    >
    > As a short cut, since I also need to add some software, can a user take
    the
    > Solaris 9 install process and "preserve data" option to both add the
    > Developer packages from End user packages (as an example) *and*
    > automatically mount the external drives without harming
    > the data? Lastly, should the user expect to see the preserved data as a
    tar
    > file or as a
    > separate system directory on both local and external drives?
    >
    > Thirsting for Solaris knowledge,
    >
    > Mario
    >
    > PS- If anyone has the "Solaris 9: The Complete Reference" book, please do
    > comment on it's usefullness as an admin book for items such as this and/or
    > it's overall content.
    >
    >

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