Re: how to create solaris slices from linux?



Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
quoting jdh13 (Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:34:18 +0200):
With linux fdisk, i can create a solaris partition. But how can i create
slices for copying solaris filesystem on it?
Is there a solution?

Not from within linux.


ok
let me take an example:
on a dual boot machine, i saw solaris form linux, and for example i can
mount solaris / with:

henry@ultra20:~$ uname -a
Linux ultra20 2.6.12-10-386 #1 Fri Nov 18 11:51:02 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux
henry@ultra20:~$ sudo mount -r -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=sunx86 /dev/sda9 /mnt
henry@ultra20:~$ cat /mnt/etc/release
Solaris 10 1/06 s10x_u1wos_19a X86
Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 07 December 2005

so solaris is installed in sda2 partition

Now, my idea is to do:
dd if=/dev/sda2 of=solaris_archive

Then, on a linux machine without solaris, i will try:
- fdisk to create a solaris partition with id bf, for example /dev/hda7
- dd if=solaris_archive of=/dev/hda7

Is this possible?

gerard
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