I'm about to replace my original Sun 20GB IDE disk drive in my Ultra 10 with a new, non-Sun 120GB disk. (I'm aware of the IDE controller issue of having a 120GB size limitation in this machine)
Is there anything special I need to do to prepare the disk (pre-formatting, etc.) to use it as the boot disk in the Ultra 10, or will the Solaris installation process take care of this?
Thanks.
Hello,
Is there anything special I need to do to prepare the disk (pre-formatting, etc.) to use it as the boot disk in the Ultra 10, or will the Solaris installation process take care of this?
the Ultra 10 can take two hard disks, there is a mounting bracket below the optical drive (CD-ROM).
I would suggest that you try Live Upgrade. If everything works, you can even swap the disks (or remove the smaller disk). Boot from CD, mount the 120GB disk (/ slice), make the adjustments in /etc/vfstab, re-run dumpadm for the changed location of dump.
If the old data isn't required (or you don't want to try Live Upgrade), a fresh install on the new disk might be the preferred option.
During installation a missing label (partition information) is reported, just writing a label in format or later during installation is suficient.
Michael
Thanks.
During installation a missing label (partition information) is reported, just writing a label in format or later during installation is suficient.
There is nothing on the original disk that I want / need to save. I was just planning on putting in a brand new disk and perform an initial install.
So you're saying there is an option during the install to label the disk, or this is done with a format command after the install? (I can't remember)
