mounting a partition that's located inside a disk (cd) image

[deadpoint]

this is sucking the out slice 0 (s0) which give you the same results as 
mounting the loop device. i've been playing with this all morning and am 
not having any luck. all the docs that i've found on google explain 
doing this under solaris, nothing on linux. i've tried dd'ing the 
individual slices but that didn't work either, slice1 was garbage.

i know that when i stick on of the solaris install cd's in the cdrom 
under solaris the volume manager (vold)  mounts all the individual 
slices under /cdrom/cdrom0. i'm not really sure that kind of magic it's 
doing but this is getting silly.

when i get to work tomorrow i'll download cd1, i only have 9 12/02 at 
work and i'll extract the Boot slice and tar it up. i'll make it 
avialable for download, this way you'll have the boot images. i'd do it 
here but my only sun, an IPX is running debian.

darin

when i get to work tomorrow i'll download cd 1,
Robert Meyer wrote:

>OK, try this:
>suck out the first partition with dd (dd if=/dev/cdrom blocks=320 of=boot.img)
>Then try mounting that as a filesystem, too.  You should be able to use that as
>the boot path and the other stuff as the install path.  If I had a jumpstart
>server around, I could test it for you but I don't have any Suns around at all.
>
>Later...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>>you can skip the install cd, all you need is software cd's 1 and 2.  you 
>>>can start everything from #1, there are scripts in the Tools directory 
>>>call setup_install_server which copy all the files to a location on you 
>>>hard drive. this scripts should work in linux even though they are 
>>>written for solaris system. there is a script called 
>>>setup_install_client which is used to setup the /etc/ethers, 
>>>/etc/bootparams, and /tftpboot images. again these scripts expect the 
>>>install server to be solaris.
>>>
>>>you should be able to mount the cdroms as iso9660. this sounds like a 
>>>fun excersize, if you'd like some assistance let me know!!
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>So far not much luck.  It complains that it needs a boot image path (kernel
>>image?)
>>
>>shrapnel Tools # ./setup_install_server  /scratch/sol/
>>./setup_install_server: line 1: mach: command not found
>>ERROR: Install boot image /mnt/cdrom/Solaris_9/Tools/Boot does not exist
>>       Check that boot image exists, or use [-t] to
>>       specify a valid boot image elsewhere.
>>
>>The "mach" error is not critical. (mach is equal to "uname -p")
>>
>>The "Boot" symlink on the CD points to a point higher than the cdrom
>>mountpoint
>>equivalent to "/mnt/s1" if the CD was mounted at /mnt/cdrom.  Assuming it
>>might
>>be present on a sun box when booted from the CD.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>=====
>>Dave J. Andruczyk
>>
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