On Fri, 21 May 2004, der Mouse wrote:

> Yes, Canada; Montreal, to be specific.
> 
> And actually, no, I'm not up early; I'm up late. >:-)

OK - so I'm impressed; it's 5.41am - youch!

> 
> > Couple of points.  You say I'll have to "redo" my partition table;
> > will the installer do this for me?
> 
> It's another one of those things the installer is supposed to do and
> usually does do.  Whether the 1.6.2/sparc installer actually does so is
> another question; since most Sun disks already have Sun partition
> tables on them, it's one of those things that - like installing
> bootblocks - could easily have gotten insufficient testing.

Only one way to find out then!

> 
> > If so, then it looks like the way forward is
> 
> > [abbreviated: (1) reinstall, manually mount new root, chroot to it;
> > (2) copy second-stage bootblock into place; (3) run installboot]
> > points 2 & 3 are copied almost verbatim from the 1.6.2 man page for
> > installboot (8).
> 
> Sounds good - though you likely can skip the reinstall part of step 1,
> since you already have an OS on the disk.  You probably can just boot
> the installer, skip the install, and go directly to dropping to a shell
> to do the mount/chroot/etc steps.
> 
> > No prizes for guessing what I'll be doing this weekend
> 
> :-/  If you have trouble, drop me a line off-list - I've done a lot of
> SPARC installs....

Will do - thanks for the offer.

> 
> > "There are two major products that came out of Berkeley; LSD and UNIX.
> > We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
> 
> Actually, didn't UNIX come out of New Jersey?  Only the BSD variants
> really came from Berkeley - and that reads better next to LSD anyway. :)

Hey - some of my best friends come from New Jersey ... :-)


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