From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 16 7:11:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB0F37B402 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 07:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:11:37 +0000 Received: from cmjg (helo=localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 16QrgQ-0001nA-00; Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:08:58 +0000 Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 15:08:58 +0000 (GMT) From: Jan Grant X-X-Sender: To: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Solaris/Sparc ISOs - getting s0/, s1/ etc. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Jan Grant wrote: > [This only makes sense if you've done some solaris] > > I've got a Solaris install CD ISO image: sol-8-u6-install-sparc.iso. > Now, a Solaris vold will mount this with the various slices all neatly > laid out: s0/Boot as a symlink to s1/, etc. > > Unfortunately, if I just mount the ISO image directly: > > # vnconfig vn0c /blah/sol-8-u6-install-sparc.iso > # mount -t cd9660 /dev/vn0c /mnt > > then /mnt contains the s0 contents (the Boot symlink, etc). > > So the FreeBSD question* is, how'd I get at the other slices on the CD? Doh! Helps if you read, say, the answerbook. First slice, 9660 FS; then there's a sparc-format UFS. -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Lambda calculus? I hardly know 'er! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message