Hi, My original question was....
Hi,
I have need to support some Sun OS 4.1.4 customers.
I do not have a bootable system CD for Sun OS 4.1.4. I have managed to
borrow one to copy. My attempts to copy have yielded in failure. My copy
comes out with 2 partitions and the original has 6. I did find out that Sun
CDs are partly hsfs and partly ufs.
I have downloaded mkisofs and cdrecord. I also
downloaded the support packages for Sun. I am running an Ultra 5 with
Solaris 7. I seem to be able to make images without problem. I just can't
get the system CD to boot.
So, my question is, how can I get a working copy of
a Sun OS 4.1.4 CD??
Thanks!
Dan
I received a number of responses to this which was very much appreciated.
The breakdown is as follows:
Many responded to with an answer of just using "dd" and burning the CD.
They were on the right track, but not completely right. Many thanks to:
Lucia Gonzalez [luciag@meta4.es]
James Neal - HandiCAT [neal@ee.pdx.edu]
Kevin Korb [kmk@crc.com]
Charlie Mengler [charliem@anchorchips.com]
sam.vilain@nz.unisys.com <mailto:sam.vilain@nz.unisys.com>
I had a couple of people suggest that I get a copy from Sun. I tried
calling Sun Express to price the CD. The CD was past end-of-life and no
longer available. That was a great suggestion if Sun still sold them.
Many thanks to :
Justin.Stringfellow@barclays.co.uk
<mailto:Justin.Stringfellow@barclays.co.uk>
Jim Robertori [jimr@lucent.com] (also thanks for the offer to borrow the
CD)
Somebody suggested that I check the archives. They are right. I didn't
think of that though.
Many thanks to:
Scott D. Yelich [scott@scottyelich.com]
Jenny Partusch [jenny@tan.unl.edu]
A couple of responses were good, but I did not have access to what they
suggested. Many thanks to:
Greg Sawicki [sawicki@shell1.interlog.com]
Ratto Daniel [DRATTO@nec.com.ar]
Paramasivam, Meenakshisundaram [mparamas@iupui.edu]
The solution to my problem is two fold. The first was John Benjamins
[johnb@Soliton.COM] outright giving me his copy of SunOS 4.1.4. (John this
definitely solves the problem. I look forward to the snail mail receipt!)
The last solution was suggested by a couple of people, but Lukas Karrer
[lkarrer@trash.net] had a web page that described what I needed and more.
Check out http://www.trash.net/~lkarrer/solcdburn.html
<http://www.trash.net/~lkarrer/solcdburn.html> . I had to wade through the
info that I didn't need, but he was right on the money. Also many thanks to
Masopust Christian [christian.masopust@siemens.at]. He suggested pretty
much the same thing. Any ways here is what I did.
The Sun CD had six partitions. The first is a hsfs file system. The rest
are ufs file systems. Hence the problem.
The first thing that I did on the Su was mount the CD without vold running.
I ran the command "prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s2"
I totaled the block sizes of all the partitions and multiplied by 512 to
get the actual total in bytes of the CD.
Then I "dd" slices 1 - 5 each to a separate file.
"dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s[1-5] of=slice.s[1-5]"
I then "dd" slice 0 to yet another file.
"dd if=/dev/rdsk/c0t6d0s0 of=slice.s0"
I then "cat" each of the files into an image file
(sunos414.iso)
"cat slice.s0 slice.s1 slice.s2 slice.s3 slice.s4
slice.s5 >> sunos414.iso
I verified the size of the file with the number of bytes
from the prtvtoc output above. They were the same.
I then ftp'd the image file over to an NT box with a burner
and told it to burn an image file. Upon completion, I tested the CD by
being able to boot the workstation off of the copy that I had just made from
the image. I plan to do a test build of a workstation to make sure that all
is well, but being able to boot off of the CD was the major hurdle to
overcome. I believe the rest should be fine.
Again, many thanks for all of the responses. They were indeed helpful. I
do greatly appreciate all of them. I apologize for the long time in
responding. It took me awhile to get to complete this because of my regular
duties!
Dan
Daniel Button
Unix System Administrator
Technology Infrastructure and Support Group
Domain & Infrastructure Support
(732) 627-5580
dbutton@exchange.ml.com <mailto:dbutton@exchange.ml.com>
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