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Creating SRT use of solaris 9 ISO image

susindran_surul
Level 6

Hi Team,

 

I dont have solaris 9 cd in hand but having oslaris 9 ISO image.Please let us know any way to create SRT with use of ISO image?

 

Thanks,

Susi.S

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mandar_khanolka
Level 6
Employee

I would say check if your local disk has some free space so that you can create /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s3 as another partition and use the same for SRT ISO creation.

thanks.

mandar

susindran_surul
Level 6

Hi Mandar,

With your help finaly created iso image.Thanks a lot buddy.....Now i am going for PRT and will get back to you if any trouble...

Below is steps for next genration people will follow without any issue while creating bmr.

Don't mount /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s0,we have to just create newfs /dev/rdsk/c3t1d0s0 with 1gb and leave it and remaining bmr will take care....

 

# ./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 : soalris_9
Enter the name of the new SRT to create : soalris_9_vx4_1
Enter the description of the new SRT [soalris_9_all] : soalris_9_all_with_vxvm_4
Enter the directory in which to place the new SRT CD image [/export/srt] : /Srt_vvxm_4.1/srt
That directory does not exist. Do you want to create it? (y/n) : y
Enter the CDROM device name [/dev/dsk/c0t6d0s2] :
Please insert Solaris 9 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 1,076,480 or more blocks : /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s0
All data on /dev/dsk/c3t1d0s0 will be lost. Do you want to continue? (y/n) [y] : y
Extracting vtoc...
Extracting boot slices...
Creating ISO 9660 image from /Srt_vvxm_4.1/srt/bmr.11117/tmp...
Truncating slice 0...
Padding slice 0...
Building slice 1...
Creating final media image...
[Info] V-125-718 Media image has been successfully created.
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mandar_khanolka
Level 6
Employee

Good job congrats... :)

Thanks.

Mandar

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Please select Mandar's post that you found most helpful and Mark as Solution.

You will agree that he deserves to be rewarded for his patience and perseverance when everyone (myself included) gave up....

susindran_surul
Level 6

Hi Marianne,

Thanks marianne.I will put solution and start new window for my doubts.

Thanks,

Susi.S