summary :RE: buiding a bootable floppy for solaris 2.6

From: Shravana Kumar (Kumar.Shravana@blr.spcnl.co.in)
Date: Tue Jul 11 2000 - 23:31:12 CDT


        Hello All,

        PROBLEM : see below

        Thanks for all who responded to my question. Many people responded
like it is

        not possible to bulid a bootable floppy for SUN m/c.

        But I found the following procedure in one of the SUN manuals for
Solaris 2.0 or 2.1 OS.

        1) format the diskette.
                
                hostname# fdformat

        2) Create the diskette's file systems.

                hostname# /usr/sbin/newfs /dev/rdiskette

        3) Mount the diskette.

                hostname# mount /dev/diskette /mnt

        4) Copy the second level disk booter to the disk

                hostname# cp /ufsboot /mnt

        5) install a boot block on the floppy

                hostname# /usr/bin/installboot /usr/lib/fs/bootblk
/dev/rdiskette

        6) Copy the file you want to boot to /mnt

        7) Unmount the diskette and remove it from the drive.

                hostname# umount /mnt

                hostname# eject floppy

        I would like to know what is the procedure for Solaris 2.6 and
above. I tried doing

        the above procedure for Solaris 2.6. I did not work for me.

        Any suggestions?.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----------------

        Hello all,
        
        
        I would like to boot my SUN m/c using a bootable floppy disk.

      What is the procedure to build a bootable floppy disk for my
solaris
2.6 m/c.

        Any help will be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks in Advance.

      Best Regards,
      Shravana Kumar

S
U BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located at
N ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq
. and the list POLICY statement located at
M ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/policy
A To submit questions/summaries to this list send your email message
to:
N sun-managers@ececs.uc.edu
A To unsubscribe from this list please send an email message to:
G majordomo@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
E and in the BODY type:
R unsubscribe sun-managers
S Or
. unsubscribe sun-managers original@subscription.address
L To view an archive of this list please visit:
I http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html
S
T

S
U BEFORE POSTING please READ the FAQ located at
N ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/faq
. and the list POLICY statement located at
M ftp://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/jdd/sun-managers/policy
A To submit questions/summaries to this list send your email message to:
N sun-managers@ececs.uc.edu
A To unsubscribe from this list please send an email message to:
G majordomo@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
E and in the BODY type:
R unsubscribe sun-managers
S Or
. unsubscribe sun-managers original@subscription.address
L To view an archive of this list please visit:
I http://www.latech.edu/sunman.html
S
T



This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.2 : Fri Sep 28 2001 - 23:14:11 CDT