Partitioning The New Boot Disk The Same As The Temporary Boot Disk; To Prepare To Partition The New Disk; To Record The Partition Layout - Sun Microsystems Sun StorEdge Installation Manual

B.3.2 Partitioning the New Boot Disk the Same As the
Temporary Boot Disk
This section contains several subprocedures you must perform to complete the first
phase of enabling bootability from a temporarily connected boot disk. These sub
procedures include:
"To Prepare To Partition the New Disk" on page B-9
"To Record the Partition Layout" on page B-9
"To Change to the New Boot Disk" on page B-12
"To Specify Slices on the New Boot Disk" on page B-14
"To Label the New Boot Disk" on page B-18

To Prepare To Partition the New Disk

1. Become superuser 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 in to the host as root.

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.
Appendix B Booting From the Network Adapter B-9