Hi Julian,

> > I have booted SunOS in single-user mode on the SS-5 so I could format and
> > partition the disk, since there is no other obvious method available. Now
> > the disk in the SS-5 is labelled, but all the filesystems are still
> > uninitialised and empty.
> 
> As you have SunOS on the SS-5, can you not dd the miniroot into the swap
> partition and then boot from that, as mentioned in the INSTALL document?

No, because SunOS is not actually installed onto the SS5's disk (it's a
brand-new SCA drive) - I've booted it single-user off the Solaris CD-ROM
in order to be able to run 'format' to set up the disk.

Regards,

Craig.

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