SUMMARY: Restoring Solaris 2.x system

From: Rainer Blaes (Rainer.Blaes@ri.dasa.de)
Date: Tue Jul 21 1998 - 09:24:58 CDT

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Rainer Blaes wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> let's say we have dumped the complete Solaris 2.5.1 system which is
> installed on a SCSI disk with target 3.
>
> If we want to restore it on a SCSI disk let's say with target 2 is there a
> way to succeed
> since /dev/c0t2d0s0 ... are not defined in the original Solaris system.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Rainer

Many thanks to those who responded:

Marco Greene

Jim Robertori

John Malick

Goodson Alex A.

The solution is:

1. load 'mini Solaris' from the CD

2. mount the root partition to /a

3. modify the /etc/vfstab file for the SCSI target =2

4. boot -r

Again many thanks!

Rainer

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