Hi folks,

Anyone tried to use a Sun SS20 operating system hard-disk to be booted up
on a Sun SS5 machine since both of them are Sun-4m architecture ?

Then to use the Sun S20 os hard-disk to system administer the sun ss5
machine ?


Thanks/rgds
JC

In article <csttpm$fjv$1@news5.jaring.my>,
"Johnny Chong" <cyl22@pd.jaring.my> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone tried to use a Sun SS20 operating system hard-disk to be booted up
> on a Sun SS5 machine since both of them are Sun-4m architecture ?
>
> Then to use the Sun S20 os hard-disk to system administer the sun ss5
> machine ?
>
>
> Thanks/rgds
> JC

You asked this last week. No answer?

Having worked with both system some time ago, I seem to recall the SS20
had a plastic drive holder that you could use to snap drives in and out.
I don't recall if that's the case with a SS5. I was only using 2GB
drives as the system disk at the time, so this may be outdated.

Do you know what type of Solaris install is on the SS20? Full OEM plus
additions or something less?

Why the switch? Why not buy the SS5 it's own disk? They're cheap.

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Johnny Chong wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone tried to use a Sun SS20 operating system hard-disk to be booted up
> on a Sun SS5 machine since both of them are Sun-4m architecture ?
>
> Then to use the Sun S20 os hard-disk to system administer the sun ss5
> machine ?

It will probably not boot.
Read the man page for installboot and write the appropriate
incantation on a piece of paper.
transfer the drive
boot -s from cdrom
mount the drive on /mnt
chroot /mnt /bin/sh
run the installboot incantation
exit
sync
umount /mnt

reboot and all should be well.


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Johnny Chong wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Anyone tried to use a Sun SS20 operating system hard-disk to be booted up
> on a Sun SS5 machine since both of them are Sun-4m architecture ?
>
> Then to use the Sun S20 os hard-disk to system administer the sun ss5
> machine ?
>
>
> Thanks/rgds
> JC
>
>
>
Note tried it, but did move a bootable disk from an Ultra 60 to an Ultra
80, which are both Sun 4u and similar(ish) machines. Seem to recall I
had to edit /etc/path_to_inst.


Take a look at the advice I got.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/...c 219cf154e9b
whilst I can't recall the exact process, whatever I did worked OK. I
just folloed the advice in that thread, and applied a bit of common sence.

You might need to install a package for the framebuffer, if the SS20 is
using the SX (with VSIMM) and the SS5 something else.