BMR - boot media question
I have recently setup BMR on my 6.5 server, and an trying to create a boot media CD for my solaris system. I am running into a question that isnt clearly defined in the instructions in how to comp...
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Hi ebodykid,
I couldn't find "the correct forum", so I am posting here. You'd have such an output if you select a partition:
---BEGIN bmrsrtadm
-bash-3.00# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bmrsrtadm
Select one of the following options:
1. Create a new Shared Resource Tree.
2. Create a new CD image based Shared Resource Tree.
3. Copy an existing Shared Resource Tree to a new location.
4. Import a Shared Resource Tree.
5. Modify an existing Shared Resource Tree.
6. Delete an existing Shared Resource Tree.
7. List Shared Resource Trees available on this server.
8. Quit.
Enter your selection (1-8) [1] : 2
Enter the name of an existing SRT : Solaris_8
Enter the name of the new SRT to create : Solaris_8_BMR
Enter the description of the new SRT [Sun Solaris SPARC 5.8] :
Enter the directory in which to place the new SRT CD image [/export/home/netbackup] :
Enter the CDROM device name [/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2] :
Please insert Solaris 8 media into the CDROM/DVDROM drive.
Press ENTER when ready (or CTRL-C to quit)... :
Computing space requirements. Please wait...
Enter the name of a Partition of size 201,600 or more blocks [/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1] :
All data on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 will be lost. Do you want to continue? (y/n) [y] : y
Extracting vtoc...
Extracting boot slices...
Creating ISO 9660 image from /export/home/netbackup/srt/Solaris_8...
Truncating slice 0...
Padding slice 0...
Building slice 1...
Creating final media image...
[Info] V-125-718 Media image has been successfully created.
---END bmrsrtadm
Thing is with Solaris 5.8,5.9 and some earlier versions of 5.10 that you have two partitions/slices in the iso/on the CD - so these slices need to be created at some place, that is why you need an extra partition. I have done this for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, though it wasn't necessary for Solaris 10 u6 10/08...Hope that clarified things a bit.
Regards,
merkata
I couldn't find "the correct forum", so I am posting here. You'd have such an output if you select a partition:
---BEGIN bmrsrtadm
-bash-3.00# /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bmrsrtadm
Select one of the following options:
1. Create a new Shared Resource Tree.
2. Create a new CD image based Shared Resource Tree.
3. Copy an existing Shared Resource Tree to a new location.
4. Import a Shared Resource Tree.
5. Modify an existing Shared Resource Tree.
6. Delete an existing Shared Resource Tree.
7. List Shared Resource Trees available on this server.
8. Quit.
Enter your selection (1-8) [1] : 2
Enter the name of an existing SRT : Solaris_8
Enter the name of the new SRT to create : Solaris_8_BMR
Enter the description of the new SRT [Sun Solaris SPARC 5.8] :
Enter the directory in which to place the new SRT CD image [/export/home/netbackup] :
Enter the CDROM device name [/dev/dsk/c0t1d0s2] :
Please insert Solaris 8 media into the CDROM/DVDROM drive.
Press ENTER when ready (or CTRL-C to quit)... :
Computing space requirements. Please wait...
Enter the name of a Partition of size 201,600 or more blocks [/dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1] :
All data on /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 will be lost. Do you want to continue? (y/n) [y] : y
Extracting vtoc...
Extracting boot slices...
Creating ISO 9660 image from /export/home/netbackup/srt/Solaris_8...
Truncating slice 0...
Padding slice 0...
Building slice 1...
Creating final media image...
[Info] V-125-718 Media image has been successfully created.
---END bmrsrtadm
Thing is with Solaris 5.8,5.9 and some earlier versions of 5.10 that you have two partitions/slices in the iso/on the CD - so these slices need to be created at some place, that is why you need an extra partition. I have done this for Solaris 8 and Solaris 9, though it wasn't necessary for Solaris 10 u6 10/08...Hope that clarified things a bit.
Regards,
merkata
