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Gentoo Migration With Dump / ST15150

/ October 3, 2016 — GNU/Linux

We have an old Sun box that won’t even run Solaris 8. Plus, Urbana wants to run Solaris 9 on the good Sun box, not GNU/Linux. After we optimized our system with Gentoo, we didn’t want to redo the compiles, especially on this slower box. We did a dump of the filesystem, installed Aurora on the new box, and restored the Gentoo root filesystem:

fdisk /dev/sdb
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt
cd /mnt
restore rf /gentoosparc64.dump
cp boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20 /boot/
vi /boot/silo.conf
vi /mnt/etc/fstab

Not a big deal. We’ve been through many of the above procedures before on NetAdminTools. We did hang an ST15150 out the back of the box (gasp). One interesting thing is that our ST15150 drive has no troubles at all. If tagged command queueing is the problem, then it must be that the Sun Happy Meal FAS doesn’t support that. Perhaps there is something about the combination of th ST15150 and the Adaptec tha causes errors? Anyway, our new system is very happy:

srv-44 kernel # emerge apache
Calculating dependencies ...done!
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net-www/apache
selected: none
protected: 1.3.27-r1
omitted: none

Our system emerges.

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