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To Prepare To Partition the New Disk
1. Switch users to root on the host with the host adapter.
% su
Password:
#
2. If the driver and any needed patches are not already installed, download the
driver package from Sun's download center and install it on the host, following
the instructions in the README file that comes with the driver.
To download the driver, follow the instructions in the release notes.
3. Reboot using the reboot(1M) command with the -r option.
# reboot -- -r
4. Log into the host as root.
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To Record the Partition Layout
After you log back into the host, you can record the layout of the partitions, or slices,
on the system boot disk.
1. Enter the format(1M) command.
If needed, see the format man page and the instructions on adding a disk and
using the format command in the Solaris administration documentation.
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