README for fixdisks

Applies to UltraBookIIi and VoyagerIIi 
 DOES NOT APPLY TO ULTRABOOK1

This directory contains all you need to expand your new disk(s) to their full 
capacity and then allocate the additional space to a file system so it will be 
available to your Solaris 2.5.1 or Solaris 2.6 system.

Contents: This directory contains:

README - this file
Solaris 2.5.1 - directory with Sun and Tadpole-RDI patches and install_all 
script for Solaris 2.5.1
Solaris 2.6  - directory with Sun and Tadpole-RDI patches and install_all 
script for Solaris 2.6

Be sure you cd to the appropriate directory.  There will be two sub-directories
and one plain file in each directory. One directory contains a Sun patch; the 
other contains a Tadpole-RDI  patch. We recommend that you runt the install_all
script. It will install both patches and then prompt you to reboot to single 
user mode and execute "fixIDEsizes", a script extracted from the Tadpole-RDI 
patch. FixIDEsizes  "grows" your disk(s) to their full size and then prompts 
for information to assign the space and make it available to the system.  You 
can either expand the last file system to the end of the disk or assign the 
space to an unused partition as either a file system or a raw partition.

It is possible to do all of this manually. We caution that you should be very 
confident of your knowledge of UNIX before attempting this manually. However if
you determine that you need to do it that way here's what you need to do:

1. Cd to the appropriate sub directory for 2.5.1 or 2.6.
2. Cd to the directory containing the Sun patch. NOTE: the Tadpole-RDI patch 
directory name begins with "T".
3. Install the patch with: ./installpatch .	# note: there are two dots (.)
in the command.  During the installation, take all the defaults offered and 
answer "y" or "yes" to all yes/no questions. Ignore comments about installpatch 
being dropped in a future release of Solaris. These patches will never be used 
in a version of Solaris that doesn't support installpatch.
4. Cd up one directory and back down into the Tadpole-RDI patch directory.
5. Install the patch with: ./installpatch .	# Same rules as #3.
6. Read the "Special Install Instructions:" in the README file in the Tadpole-
RDI patch sub-directory. It gives you instruction for executing the "growhard" 
script to expand the disk(s) to their maximum capacity. It also gives basic 
instructions on using format and ufs specific mkfs to allocate the space to a 
partition of the disk and to expand the last partition to the end of the disk 
if that's what you choose.

To re-iterate, we strongly recommend that you use the fixIDEsizes script to 
grow your disk(s) and allocate the added space. If you are not sure what you 
want to do with the added space, choose the second option and assign the space 
to an unused partition. Then you can come back later and use format, ufsdump 
and ufsrestore and whatever other tools you deem necessary to re-arrange and 
allocate the entire disk.