This is actually not too hard, once you know how.  Here is what you
do:

   1. boot from Solaris cd-rom or from a network install server
   2. go through the system identification
   3. exit from the install program
   4. format and partition disks as needed
   5. create filesystems with newfs
   6. mount all filesystems under /mnt, making mount points as needed
   7. make mount points for /proc and /dev/fd
   8. ftp a copy of adsm from another machine (copy /opt/IBMDSMbas
      into /tmp)
   9. edit dsm.sys and replace the tcpserveraddress with the numeric
      address
  10. restore the filesystems:  eg:
         dsmc
         restore -subdir=yes / /mnt
         restore -subdir=yes /usr /mnt/usr
         restore -subdir=yes /var /mnt/var
         restore -subdir=yes /opt /mnt/opt
  11. create the device special files:
         cd /mnt
         drvconfig -r devices -p /mnt/etc/path_to_inst
         devlinks -r /mnt
         disks -r /mnt
         tapes -r /mnt
  12. install the boot block:
         installboot /mnt/usr/lib/fs/ufs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s0
  13. halt and reboot
         boot -sr

Restoring an SGI machine is similar, but you need to get a copy of
/usr/lib/libm.so from another machine before dsmc will work.  Recreating
/dev is done just by running MAKEDEV.


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Paul Hilchey
The University of British Columbia