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Yes, format /newfs them if you don't want the old data, it doesn't usually matter, but patch first, just incase there is a bug in SDS
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Yes, format /newfs them if you don't want the old data, it doesn't usually matter, but patch first, just incase there is a bug in SDS

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I have two new 20g drives installed in Ultra 5 box. &nbsp;How can I format these drives? &nbsp;Can I just do a &quot;boot -rv&quot; at the ok prompt? What is the exact command? &nbsp;I'm sorry. &nbsp;I guess I worded my previous question wrong before.<br />
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I have two new 20g drives installed in Ultra 5 box.  How can I format these drives?  Can I just do a "boot -rv" at the ok prompt? What is the exact command?  I'm sorry.  I guess I worded my previous question wrong before.

Thanks!

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Thanks for clearing this up for me. &nbsp;I will perform an install from scratch using the CD.<br />
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Thanks! &nbsp;
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Thanks for clearing this up for me.  I will perform an install from scratch using the CD.

Thanks!  

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Should you format IDE drives in Solaris 9? And, with two newly 20g IDE hard disks installed, which I plan to mirror... when should I install the recommended OS 9 patches? Before or after I mirror both drives?<br />
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Dee<br />
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Should you format IDE drives in Solaris 9? And, with two newly 20g IDE hard disks installed, which I plan to mirror... when should I install the recommended OS 9 patches? Before or after I mirror both drives?

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Should you format IDE drives in a Sun box?

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.