SUMMARY: Moving from SB 150 to SB 2000/Hardware issue
2007-12-25 5:54:00
Thanks for all the responses on moving from a SB150 to a
SB2000. My original question was:
Can you swap a hard drive from a Sun Blade 150 (SPARC IIi) and put it
into a Sun Blade 2000 (SPARC III)?
The answer is NO. The SB150 uses IDE disks, and the 2000 uses FC-AL
disks, so they are incompatible. I did get a few suggestions on the
best way to migrate, though:
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However, the is an easy was to migrate.
Ensure you have SUNWsan packages installed.
Patch the SB150 to the hilt.
Create a FLAR of you SB150 to a disk that is separate from the actual
system (NFS mounted are on another system) Ensure you get at least the OS.
Now setup the new SB1000/SB2000 by booting from CD/DVD
When the systen asks from whay you wish to load, state FLAR
From here on, spec the partitioning etc.
Now start load
Have coffee/tea/soda
1 1 hr later, check & test - you should be done.
That's it.
Proceed to next system to migrate.
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And another suggestion about jumpstarting:
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There are significant differences between the two systems and it's likely that there will be too much missing from your UltraIIbased install to suport the UltraIII.
How about building a jumpstart server on your 150 to load the new stuff?
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I'll be trying the FLAR so we'll see how that goes. Thanks to Joe Fletcher, Scott Spencer, Matthew Stier, Casper Dik, Ian McGinley, David Markowitz and dersmythe at fastmail.fm. Cheers,
Chris
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