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Trusted Solaris Installation and Configuration

Modifications to Creating a Disk Configuration File

In the Trusted Solaris environment, configuration files are handled by the admin role. Use the following information to modify the procedures in "Creating Disk Configuration Files" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide.The Intel architecture procedure also modifies "fdisk" in Solaris 8 Advanced Installation Guide.

SPARC: To Create a SPARC Disk Configuration File

  1. Log on as a user who can assume the admin role.

  2. As admin at label ADMIN_LOW, launch a terminal and determine the device name for the workstation's disk.

  3. Redirect the output of prtvtoc to create the disk configuration file: 


    $ prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/device_name > disk_config
IA: To Create an Intel Disk Configuration File

  1. As admin at label ADMIN_LOW, redirect the output of the following prtvtoc command to a file.


    $ prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/device_name > file1

  2. Save the output of the following fdisk command to a file.


    $ fdisk -R -d -n /dev/rdsk/device_name 2>file2

  3. Concatenate the two files to create a disk configuration file.


    $ cat file1 file2 > disk_config

  4. Copy the disk configuration file to the JumpStart directory: :


    $ cp disk_config   jumpstart_dir_path