Hi all,
Is it possible to create a Solaris restore disk floppy so that I could
restore my Solaris box unattended.  I can do it manually using boot -s using
CDROM but the system that I am using doesn't have a CDROM (Compaq slimeline)
and I would prefer to automate the process with a floppy.  If a really need
to I could find a CDROM somewhere for a few dollars.

I also tried ghost/dos to restore partition but the process would take 3-5
hours from DVD as this would be a sector copy - although there is less then
500M of data in use.

Another way I thought of would be a busybox linux, compiled with UFS solaris
filesystem into kernel but I don't think that there is a ufsrestore for
linux.

A last option I was thinking of was partimage which I think Supports UFS but
I thought I'd better check if there was an easier way.

I was hoping to do something like the following:

newfs /c0d0s0
mkdir /tmp/home
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d0s1 /tmp/home
mkdir /tmp/rt
mount -F ufs /dev/dsk/c0d0s0 /tmp/rt
cd /tmp/rt
#check MD5 Hash if good carry on else loop beeps
#also encrypt and compress when get round to
ufsrestore xf /tmp/home/root001.img
#Beep a few times 
Reboot

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
Cheers

Karen

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