I am attempting to clone the hard drive of an old (and delicate) SUN Sparc 5 Station using Solaris 7 operating system, an Informix Database and application software. I have successfully copied all six partitions using Ufsdump to DAT tape. However, when I attempt to restore the system using the method below:-
- boot cdrom -s (load in single user mode Solaris 7)
- Load tape and confirm status using 'mt status'
- mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mnt
- cd /mnt
- ufsrestore rvf /dev/rmt/0 /dev/rdsk/cntndnsn (n=0-6 starting at 0)
- rm restoresymtable
- cd /
- umount /mnt
- fsck /dev/rdsk/cntndnsn (for each slice 0-6)
- installboot /usr/platform/'uname -i'/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0
the machine attempts to boot and issues 'skipping system dump - no dump device configured' then resets then attempts to boot again. I have also had 'file synching problems'. Any suggestions?