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**Edit**Creating a flash install of your Solaris 10 system (flar)

Creating a complete, ready to install copy of your freshly installed system is very simple thanks to the flar command in Solaris 10.  This is a very powerful tool to know.  I recommend reading the man page on this one   This will be a short tortorial on how to create a FULL system install flar image.

First it's best to be in single user mode:

'init s'

Then we do:

'cd /' or where ever you want to keep it.  Make sure you have enough disk space! 

flar -n <name>.flar -c <same name>.flar 

 It's that easy!  This will create a complete .flar image of your current system.  You can now go on to do a flash install on another system or create a kick-start image.
 

Posted at 10:36PM May 04, 2007 by Andrew Neumann in Sun  |  Comments[1]