Hello,
Have an existing flash sol9 install for the OS. Have now installed some
apps in /opt.
Looking at the man pages I thought I would try:
root # flarcreate -n app_20.flar -R/opt -S -c app_20.flar
Full Flash
Checking integrity...
ERROR: fdo: Cannot open input %s: /opt/var/sadm/install/contents
ERROR: Integrity check failed.
root # flarcreate -I -n app_20.flar -R/opt -S -c app_20.flar
Full Flash
No integrity check. Option "-I" set.
Running precreation scripts...
Precreation scripts done.
Creating the archive...
cat: cannot open /opt/etc/nodename
/usr/sbin/flarcreate[50]: /opt/var/sadm/system/admin/INST_RELEASE: not
found

Clearly I am using a wrong approach here.

But what is the right one?

TIA

Ton

ton de w writes:
> root # flarcreate -n app_20.flar -R/opt -S -c app_20.flar

Use -R _only_ for diskless clients, AutoClients, during
Solaris install, or for flash archives that are temporarily
extracted. You probably want to use something like:

# find /opt | sort -r |
> flarcreate -n s9-opt -S -H -c -f /dev/stdin -F s9-opt.flar

(There might be simpler ways with newer versions of
flarcreate -- check with Google for old postings in
comp.unix.solaris or bigadmin.com).


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