Install Solaris w/o booting - possible?

[crchand@ibm.net]

Ravi Kuppanna wrote:

> Well, this is certainly do-able and we have done this many times.  Same problem
> as yours, Client's don't like downtimes...
>
> All you need is another machine of the same arch (sun4u, in your case) that has
> the OS of your choice installed in the way you want it.

I would be careful to select a sun4u system that's
not only the same architecture, but the same model
and hardware configuration.  Over the last year,
I've had to help 2 or 3 Sys. Admins. troubleshoot
boot and login problems when they dumped the
OS disk from one Ultra system to another.  The
hardware configurations were just different enough
that problems occured in bootup (as I remember, the
one that came up most often had to do with the graphics
cards).  "boot -r" didn't help, and we had to manually
try to determine what was different/missing.

Carol