System Upgrades
Upgrading the Main Memory
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SPARCbook Portable Workstation User Guide
The SPARCbook boots from the CD-ROM. It takes several
minutes for the boot process to complete before an
OpenWindows desktop is displayed.
4.
Ignoring the Solaris Installation window, select Command Tool
from the Workspace Utilities menu (click and hold the mouse
menu button on the desktop to display the Workspace menu and
then go into Utilities). A Command Tool window is displayed.
Use this to enter the commands described below.
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Listing the Existing Disk Partitions
List the partitions as follows:
1.
Enter the format command:
#
format
Searching for disks...done
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS:
0. c0t0d0 <IBM-DLGA-23080 cyl 11747 alt 2 hd 8 sec 64>
/iommu@0,…
2.
Specify a disk from the
AVAILABLE DISK SELECTIONS
list. In
this example, the only disk available is disk 0:
Specify disk (enter its number):
0
selecting c0t0d0:
[disk formatted]
3.
From the format menu, select partition:
format> partition
4.
From the partition menu, select print:
partition> print
Part Tag
Flag Cylinders
Size
Blocks
0
root
wm
0 - 505
126.50MB (506/0/0) 259072
1
swap
wu
506 - 889
96.00MB
(384/0/0) 6014464
2
backup
wm
0 - 11746
2.87GB
(11746/0/0) 1582080
3
var
wm
890 - 1329
110MB
(440/0/0) 225280
4
unassignedwu
1330 - 1585
64.00MB
(256/0/0) 262144
5
opt
wm
1586 -11261
2.42GB
(9676/0/0) 4943872
6
usr
wm
11262 - 11741 120.00MB (480/0/0) 256000
7
unassignedwm
0
0
(0/0/0)
Note
The save partition is partition 4 and may be shown as “unassigned”, although there are
specifications for the start cylinder and number of cylinders used. The partition map
above shows a system with a “factory installed” partition map (see “Boot Disk Partitions”
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