re-preinstall(1M) (man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands)

man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands

re-preinstall(1M)

Name

re-preinstall– installs the JumpStart software on a system

Synopsis

cdrom-mnt-pt/Solaris_XX/Tools/Boot/usr/sbin/install.d/re-preinstall 
     [-m Solaris_boot_dir] 
     [-k platform_name] target-slice

Description

re-preinstall installs the JumpStart software (preinstall boot image) on a system, so you can power-on the system and have it automatically install the Solaris software (perform a JumpStart installation on the system). When you turn on a re-preinstalled system, the system looks for the JumpStart software on the system's default boot disk. All new SPARC systems have the JumpStart software already preinstalled. The XX in Solaris_XX is the version number of the Solaris release being used.

You can use the re-preinstall command in several ways. The most common way is to run re-preinstall on a system to install the JumpStart software on its own default boot disk. This is useful if you want to restore a system to its original factory conditions. (See the first procedure described in EXAMPLES.)

You can also run re-preinstall on a system to install JumpStart software on any attached disk (non-boot disk). After you install the JumpStart software on a disk, you can move the disk to a different system and perform a JumpStart installation on the different system. (See the second procedure described in EXAMPLES.)

re-preinstall creates a standard file system on the specified target-slice (usually slice 0), and re-preinstall makes sure there is enough space on the target-slice for the JumpStart software. If sufficient space is not available, re-preinstall fails with the following message:

re-preinstall: target-slice too small xx Megabytes required

You can use the format(1M) command to create sufficient space on the target-slice for the JumpStart software.

Options

The following options are supported:

-k platform_name: Platform name of the system that will use the disk with the JumpStart software. The default is the platform name of the system running re-preinstall. (Use the uname(1) command (-i option) to determine a system's platform name.)
-m Solaris_boot_dir: Absolute path to the Solaris_XX/Tools/Boot subdirectory of a mounted Solaris CD or a Solaris CD copied to disk that re-preinstall uses to install the JumpStart software. The default is root (/), which is where the Solaris CD is mounted in single-user mode.

Operands

The following operands are supported:

target-slice: Device name of the disk slice where the JumpStart software will be installed (usually slice 0), for example, c0t3d0s0.

Examples

Example 1 Installing the JumpStart Software on a System's Own Default Boot Disk

The following procedure installs the JumpStart software on a system's own default boot disk:

From the ok prompt, boot the system from the Solaris media CD or DVD in single-user mode:
ok boot cdrom -s
The following command installs the Jumpstart software on the System default boot disk, c0t0d0s0 on a Solaris system:
example# /usr/sbin/install.d/re-preinstall c0t0d0s1
Reboot the slice:
example# reboot disk:b

Example 2 Installing the JumpStart Software on a System's Attached (non-boot) Disk

The following procedure installs the JumpStart software on a system's attached (non-boot) disk:

Mount the Solaris CD or DVD if volume management is not running or CD or DVD is not mounted.
Use the format(1M) command to determine the target-slice where JumpStart will be installed.
Use the uname(1) command (-i option) to determine the platform name of the system that will use the re-preinstalled disk
Run re-preinstall with the -m Solaris_boot_dir option if the Solaris CD or DVD is not mounted on /cdrom.

The following command installs the JumpStart software on the system's attached disk for a system with a Sun4u kernel architecture, and it uses the Solaris CD or DVD mounted with a volume manager on a Solaris system:
example# /cdrom/cdrom/s1/usr/bin/install.d/re-preinstall -m /cdrom/cdrom/s1 -k sun4u c0t2d0s0

Exit Status

The following exit values are returned:

0: Successful completion.
1: An error has occurred.

Attributes

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcdrom (Solaris CD, SPARC Platform Edition)