NDMP - OpenSolaris? Fedora?

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I assume here is the right place to post, if not, please move.

I went in today, and was given something to backup our Mirapoint Email system over NDMP using Solaris.

I was shown a server that I can use, and given a SCSI tape drive and some tapes, downloaded "OpenSolaris 2008.05" from the OpenSolaris Website. I finally got the server to boot from CD, and I can't figure out how to install it? Any pointers here?

Alternatively, we have a Moodle server that has two SCSI ports on the back of it running Fedora. Can this be used? And how?

Thanks in Advance, any help greatly appreciated.
 
oldbag said:
Not this then?

http://opensolaris.org/os/community/tools/building_opensolaris/
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I feel so stupid!

Install a Binary Distribution of Solaris

As we mentioned previously, the machine on which we build OpenSolaris must be running a suitably recent version of Solaris Express or SXCR (or, indeed, a previous OpenSolaris build). Although the author has successfully built OpenSolaris on a machine with just the Developer cluster installed, Sun recommends that the Full cluster be installed.

Describing how to install Solaris is beyond the scope of these articles, and is well documented in Sun's Release and Installation collection, available from docs.sun.com.

Once we've satisfied the prerequisites (including installing a binary distribution of Solaris if necessary), we're ready to start downloading the various components and tools we need.


Download the Necessary Components

Before we download any of the OpenSolaris components and tools, we should create a directory in which we will work; this directory and its children is called a workspace. For the sake of these examples, we'll use a directory in our home directory called open_solaris as our base workspace. In this directory, we'll have a subdirectory for each build, named after the build contained therein (e.g., build-17). In each build directory, we'll have a build workspace that we'll call testws.

This will give us the following directory hierarchy:


$HOME/open_solaris Base directory

$HOME/open_solaris/build-17 Source and other bits for build 17

$HOME/open_solaris/build-n Source and other bits for build n

$HOME/open_solaris/build-n/testws Compilation workspace
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But for this bit, do I boot off of the CD I have, and run these commands after "logging-in" to the "installation" using the password 'opensolaris'?

Thanks Again
 
Hrm, I would assume if you are building a new machine (with no OS) you'd boot off the CD, partition the disk and install the base packages, then compile the kernel if you need to change it.....
 
This is an old server that used to run FreeBSD, for the life of me (and the rest of the department) we cannot get the server to boot off of the hard drives, however they are in a RAID configuration... would this be an issue at all?
 
How would I tell, this is all new stuff to me.

It was configured using a "BIOS like interface". Prompted to press something like CTRL + S at bootup for RAID options I believe?
 
If it prompts for that it sounds like it has a hardware raid card. If you let it carry on, does it try to boot anything (if you don't have a cd in the drive)?
 
Ok then.

Errrr, if we let it carry on, it 'attempts' to boot from "FreeBSD" (assigned F1?). And it just says something a long the lines of...

No /boot/loader

So I can only assume that the boot loader has been damaged?
 
Yup, if you wish to keep BSD on the box, you could just boot off the BSD live CD, run up fdisk, and write the boot loader to the / drive. Is it a solaris box, or just a normal intel machine?

You could actually also boot off the BSD install CD and go for an "expert" or "custom" install, go straight to fdisk and write the boot loader to the / partition.
 
I have instructions for the NDMP part for a Solaris installation, so I assume Solaris is what I need, unless FreeBSD has NDMP support for SCSI Drives?
 
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