lofiadm and "partition" s1 on Solaris 9 ISO images

[Sean O'Neill]

Does anyone know if its somehow possible to use lofiadm (or any other
tool for that matter) and "mount" partition s1 (or any partition other
then s0) on the Solaris 9 installation CDs (specifically CD 1 of 2) ?

From what I'm seeing, lofiadm only allows you to mount what is
effectively parition s0 on the installation CDs. Unfortunately, I
currently can't get at the "boot" paritions. I'm trying to see if I
can build a Jumsptart server without having to burn the ISO images on
CDs. So far, it doesn't seem possible.

Any thoughts appreciated.
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Sean O'Neill
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[Richard L. Hamilton]

In article <uo0aiu0teqr0teg12...@4ax.com>,

Sean O'Neill <se...@deletethistorespond.seanoneill.deletethistorespond.info> writes:
> Does anyone know if its somehow possible to use lofiadm (or any other
> tool for that matter) and "mount" partition s1 (or any partition other
> then s0) on the Solaris 9 installation CDs (specifically CD 1 of 2) ?
>
> From what I'm seeing, lofiadm only allows you to mount what is
> effectively parition s0 on the installation CDs. Unfortunately, I
> currently can't get at the "boot" paritions. I'm trying to see if I
> can build a Jumsptart server without having to burn the ISO images on
> CDs. So far, it doesn't seem possible.

AFAIK, so far, it isn't with just lofiadm (although I wouldn't be shocked
if one of these days they might do something about that).

I've got a program (inspired by someone else's instructions on how to do
it manually with od and dd) that will extract all slices other than the
one at the beginning (not necessarily the numerically first slice) from a
bootable Solaris CD image. I have no idea whether it could work (or would
be applicable) on x86, but it works fine for me on (Ultra)SPARC (at least
on Solaris 8, and I have no reason to believe it shouldn't for a Solaris 9
image). The URL is

ftp://smarty.smart.net/pub/rlhamil/goodies/imgslice.c

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[Sean O'Neill]

On Fri, 05 Jul 2002 04:13:59 -0000, rlh...@smart.net (Richard L.
Hamilton) wrote:

>AFAIK, so far, it isn't with just lofiadm (although I wouldn't be shocked
>if one of these days they might do something about that).
>
>I've got a program (inspired by someone else's instructions on how to do
>it manually with od and dd) that will extract all slices other than the
>one at the beginning (not necessarily the numerically first slice) from a
>bootable Solaris CD image. I have no idea whether it could work (or would
>be applicable) on x86, but it works fine for me on (Ultra)SPARC (at least
>on Solaris 8, and I have no reason to believe it shouldn't for a Solaris 9
>image). The URL is
>
>ftp://smarty.smart.net/pub/rlhamil/goodies/imgslice.c

Kewl !!! I'll give it a try. Thanks :)