Creating a Bootable Solaris Recovery CD
Creating a Bootable Solaris Recovery CD
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Creating a Bootable Solaris Recovery CD
by Mark A. Hershberger (weblog)
Solaris, unlike some other Operating Systems, does not ship with a method for creating bootable recovery media. The following procedure is one that I’ve been able to devise after searching for more help on the matter.
In documenting this process, I will first show you how to create a bootable recovery disk. Once that is successful, I’ll describe how to create a bootable CDROM.
Slice 1 – the driver for the recovery
The partition we are going to build is a bit large – 200MB. You could make it smaller by squeezing stuff out, but it is fine for our purposes since the recovery image is generally quite small (less than 100MB for the core install).
