SUMMARY: Moving from SB 150 to SB 2000/Hardware issue

From: Christopher Singleton <cas40_at_bu.edu>
Date: Tue Mar 07 2006 - 17:16:10 EST
Greetings,


          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@fastmail.fm.  Cheers,


						Chris
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