Subject: Re: install fun
To: Ian Main <imain@gtk.org>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@COLT.NET>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 02/21/2001 10:29:31
> OK, I'm going to ask what is probably a really silly question..
> I'm trying to install onto an ultra 10, which already has solaris on it on
> the first HD, and I'm installing onto the second.  So, I dd the miniroot
> (or ramdisk from 1.5) onto one of the partitions on the new disk, and boot it,
> but then it asks for a root device, and doesn't list anything that looks to me like
> a ramdisk etc., and there's no mention of this in the install docs.
> 
> The answer is probably obvious, but I'm not seeing it :)
> 
This is how i did the install but I installed the full distribution
from solaris - make sure you have made all your devices in /dev.

Neil.