Many thanks to the following for all the help and advice given. davem@fdgroup.com eisenman@ilt.com pat.novak@po.state.ct.us Vern.Walls@parsons.com Charles.Homan@GDC4S.Com Bertrand_Hutin@notes.amdahl.com fabrice@bluemartini.com peter@ashlyn.co.uk mikelist@sky.net ddunham@taos.com mps@blackbird.discomsys.com Stan.Pietkiewicz@statcan.ca keith_tarbell@ad.gris.wnyric.org mike@babbage.cs.umsl.edu paul@ultra5.co.uk epa9206@epa.state.il.us chipman@ecopiabio.com John.E.Riddoch@is.shell.com Will.Enestvedt@jwu.edu RDinwid@templeinland.com mike.salehi@kodak.com JStults@ap.org dharrington@dscr.dla.mil The sequence that brought up the machine is as follows. 1 "stop + a" 2 Boot with cdrom and command "boot cdrom -sw" 3 type "format" 4 select damaged disk 5 print partition table 6 power-off and remove damaged disk and replace with new disk 7 boot with cdrom and command "boot cdrom -sw" 8 type "format" 9 recreate old partitions from old drive 10 name, label and save 11 type newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 12 mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /a (note the change from rdsk to dsk, this took a while to figure out) 13 cd /a 14 ufsresote -I /dev/rmt/0n 15 add * (change as per you requirement and also what you backed up on your tape) 16 extract 17 more /a/etc/vfstab (verfity that is what your system should look like) 18 init 6 This successfully brought up our machine (as you can see as I am using my e-mail address to send the summary) Once again thanks to everyone. _________________________________________________ Kamalan Govender Computer & Network Services University of the Witwatersrand Tel: +27 11 717 1671 Fax: +27 11 339 1225 Web-site: www.wits.ac.za -----Original Message----- Subject: Restoring Boot Disk after hard drive crash Hi all. We have a SPARC server 1000 with Solaris 7. The hard drive from which the OS boots crashed and has since been replaced. We has created the needed partitions for the drive and want to restore from tape the data that was there. On the drive were the files for /root and /usr and swap. We are able to bring the machine up from cdrom with the command "boot cdrom -sw". When we try to make the directory /root from / it gives the error "mkdir: Failed to make directory "/root"; Read-only file system". We are able to see the drive using the format command. Once we make the /root directory we were going to try to add the files from tape in to the directory. using ufsrestore -i /dev/rmt/0 to read the files and them to the directory. Any help or suggestions will we greatly appreciated. thanks in advance ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Sat Apr 6 03:19:21 2002
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