BeleniX installation (was Re: [ug-bosug] Solaris Installation Strategy)

[Moinak Ghosh]

Shivakumar G.N wrote:

> I had tried giving the command
> mount -F pcfs /dev/dsk/c0t0d0p0 /<mnt-point>

   The above notation is valid for SCSI drives. For IDE drives you need 
to omit
   the t<n>. In addition for FAT partitions on extended partition you 
use the ":<n>"
   notation.

   So for the first extended FAT partition uou can use /dev/dsk/c0d0p0:1 
However
   the number after c can vary. The number after d will vary if you are 
using more
   than 1 harddisk.

   To get the correct c number  boot into BeleniX livecd and execute df 
-h. This will
   show you what existing harddisk partitions are mounted - since you 
already have
   one FAT parrtition that is being mounted. Check the c number and use 
it in the
   above notation to access the extended FAT partition.

Regards,
Moinak.

>
> The command is incorrect since p0 is for entire disk. p1, p2, etc are 
> to be used for the specific partitions.
>
> But the behaviour of the command I tried was that the system hung for 
> a few seconds and rebooted automatically.
>
> Regarding the utility, I'll see if I can write one.
>
> regards
> Shiv
>
>
> On 4/5/06, *Moinak Ghosh* < Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com 
> <mailto:Moinak.Ghosh at sun.com>> wrote:
>
>     Shivakumar G.N wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 4/3/06, *Sriram Popuri* <sgpopuri at gmail.com
>     <mailto:sgpopuri at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto: sgpopuri at gmail.com <mailto:sgpopuri at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     If you face any problem while installing BeleniX, set the
>     >     environment valiable DEBUG and run hdinstaller. send us the log
>     >     file in /tmp/debug.log. (we somehow missed this while
>     documenting)
>     >
>     >     bash$export DEBUG=1
>     >     bash$hdinstaller
>     >
>     >
>     > /tmp/debug.log can be taken only if another FAT partition is
>     > automatically mounted by belenix.
>     > I had two FAT32 partitions - 1 primary and 1 logical. Belenix had
>     > identified the first one automatically.
>        You can look at  http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/iv/3.html
>     <http://multiboot.solaris-x86.org/iv/3.html>  for a
>     good guide to Solaris
>        device naming and partition handling details. It is possible to
>     mount
>     a FAT partition in
>        an extended partition in Solaris.
>
>        BeleniX needs an utility that can scan the partition table and
>     generate a full list of partitions
>        for Grub and Solaris.
>
>     Regards,
>     Moinak.
>     >
>     > Is there any other way?
>     >
>     > regards
>     > Shiv
>     >
>     >
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