Copying Solaris 10

I need to copy an existing installation of Solaris 10 onto another hard drive. The destination hard drive is clean. Does imaging software exist that will allow me to take an image of the existing installation and copy it to a clean hard drive that is presently in the same machine?

[288 byte] By [busta_bird] at [2007-11-26 10:27:21]

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If both the disks have the same size you could use 'dd'..example:dd if=/dev/dsk/<original disk> of=/dev/dsk/<clean disk> 7/M.

mAbrante at 2007-7-7 2:31:39 >

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# 2

Actually they are different sizes. I currently have it installed on a 120gb hdd and I recently found a 20gb hdd that I want to switch it to. Any other ideas?

busta_bird at 2007-7-7 2:31:39 >

# 3

If the root partition on the old disk is less than 20 gb you should still be able to dd, othervise you could possibly CPIO everything from the old disk to the newdisk, run installboot on the new disk, swap them and see if it works ;) 7/M.

mAbrante at 2007-7-7 2:31:39 >

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