System Administration Commands                   rootarchive(1M)



NAME
     rootarchive - manage bootable miniroot archives

SYNOPSIS
     /boot/solaris/bin/rootarchive  pack archive root


     /boot/solaris/bin/rootarchive  unpack archive root


     /boot/solaris/bin/rootarchive  packmedia solarisimage root


     /boot/solaris/bin/rootarchive  unpackmedia solarisimage root


DESCRIPTION
     The rootarchive utility is used to manage bootable miniroot
     archives  and  is currently only available on x86 platforms.
     The utility can pack and unpack boot/root archives  in  both
     ufs  and  hsfs (iso9660) format. It will always generate ufs
     archives.


     rootarchive also uses the lofi file driver to export a file
     as  a  block  device  (see  lofi(7D))  and mount to mount or
     unmount file systems and remote resources  (see  mount(1M)).
     rootarchive requires the same privileges that are needed to
     run these commands.

SUBCOMANDS
     The rootarchive command has the following subcommands:

     pack archive root    Pack from the  image  found  under  the
                          root directory to the archive.


     unpack archive root

         Unpack from the archive to an unpacked image  under  the
         root directory.


     packmedia solarisimage root

         Pack the solaris image to the root directory.


     unpackmedia solarisimage root

         Unpack the solaris image from the root directory.




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     For packmedia and unpackmedia, other items that  do  not  go
     into  the ramdisk image are copied or uncopied (see cpio(1))
     as well. Specifically, this includes all the packaging data-
     bases needed for pkgadd and the other packaging utilities to
     succeed which are not used in the running and  hence  pruned
     to conserve memory.

EXAMPLES
     Example 1 Unpacking the Solaris x86 install image


     The following command unpacks the current Solaris image from
     the root directory:


       # rootarchive unpackmedia \
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvxdvd/latest /export/Boot



     Where /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvxdvd/latest represents a path
     to  a Solaris x86 install image and /export/Boot is a direc-
     tory that will be purged or created, as necessary.

     Example 2 Packing the Solaris x86 install image


     The following command packs the current Solaris image to the
     root directory:


       # rootarchive packmedia \
       /export/nv/solarisdvd.nvxdvd/latest /export/Boot


EXIT STATUS
     The following exit values are returned:

     0    The command completed successfully.


     1    The command exited due to an error.


ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:








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           ATRIBUTE TYPE               ATRIBUTE VALUE       
    
     Availability                 SUNWcsu                     
    
     Interface Stability          Stable                      
    


SEE ALSO
     cpio(1), bootadm(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5), lofi(7D)












































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