[indiana-discuss] [osol-discuss] Free CD

[Martin Bochnig]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Martin Bochnig <martin at martux.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 9:44 AM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>> Hartmut Krafft wrote:

> #6) installboot
>
> EXAMPLES
>    Example 1 Installing UFS Boot Block
>
>    To install a ufs boot block on slice 0 of target 0  on  con-
>    troller  1  of  the platform where the command is being run,
>    use:
>
>      # installboot /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk \
>           /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0
>
> (maybe you must instruct installboot to use UFS via "-F ufs" now)
>
> #7) Now you are ready to copy the LiveCD content to hdd.


Wait a minute, as my primary platform is AMD64 now, I didn't boot any
SPARC box for quite a while. Currently I am not 100% sure whether
newboot has completely removed installboot support, or if the old way
of making a UFS bootable still works (while simply copying over the
existing bootarchives).
If you are interested in this subject, I put some research into it.
Otherwise I will do this anyway   ;-)


%martin