Best way to bring data diskgroup online after the root disk is replaced.

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I have a sun server which lost the root disk. so i copied data from an altboot disk.

My server is now booted free of veritas configuration. Veritas 3.5 packages are on the new boot disk.

I need to activate veritas on the new disk. I ran "vxinstall" and getting the following menu. I really don't need to encapsulate my root disk.. all i need is to bring back online  the existing data disk group which from the externel disk.

Any input of what shall i do with this menu?

Volume Manager Installation Options
Menu: VolumeManager/Install

 1      Quick Installation
 2      Custom Installation
 3      Prevent multipathing/Suppress devices from VxVM's view

 ?      Display help about menu
 ??     Display help about the menuing system
 q      Exit from menus

Thanks

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Version 3.5 has been EOL for so long that it seems like a bad memory....

You need a rootdg with 3.5. Either encapsulate the boot disk or provide another disk. See the installation Guide: http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH20934

See the topic Running the vxinstall Program .
Always choose Custom install.

This URL describes how to bypass vxinstall and create rootdg on a single slice: http://www.unixway.com/vm/veritasvm/rootdg.html

This method was 'unsupported', but since your VxVM version is no longer supported (2006-02-13), it really doesn't matter anymore.