SunBlade 150 running Solaris 8...cloning

raspberrypi67

Hi Folks,


Thought I'd try here for a bit of help with cloning a hard drive thats unix based and in a Sunblade 150. Its a secondary drive, the primary boots the OS solaris 8 no problem. Cant see the second drive for some strange reason. Jumpers are ok. All in cable select position so the cable selects the master and slave on the IDE port.
Ive used the format commant just to see if it picks up the drive but just
sees the first one that has the OS. Perhaps a dead drive, bit odd though.


I'm frustrated as I want to format the drive to get rid of the partitions so clonezilla wont have such a hard time and then may just slap the image on the second drive. But dont have the experience with the commands etc.

Could I boot up from USB with ubuntu and format from there, would this work?





My understanding: Very limited, I'm new to Unix, know a little to get
around such as ls, pwd, etc......
Was never really exposed to Unix during my career I have to say. If this was a windows issue I could solve it no problem!!!


Ok, here is what I've done. I created a Clonezilla flash drive which I recall using in a previous job so I get so far but the app gets bogged down with all the different partitions on the destination drive....( sda1, sda2...bla bla )
I've tried image to disk. Disk to Disk.
No joy.
Any insight as to what i need to do here would be GREAT...tks a lot

ED E

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raspberrypi67

ED E wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)

dd is love. dd is life. Praise dd.

OOOk, So I know all about this but tell me this, If I can boot into ubuntu via a usb stick, will Linux see the 2 sun drives ok ? And, Can i 'sudoget' some type of app that will do the same thing , ie , clone the drives, do you know...many thanks


Rich