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- From: repass@austin.ibm.com (Jim Repass)
- Subject: Re: changing disk configuration with VRM
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:17:13 GMT
- References: <1ikvmjINNg75@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Organization: IBM Corporation, Advanced Workstation Division
- Keywords: VRM, harddrive
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- In article <1ikvmjINNg75@shelley.u.washington.edu>, ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) writes:
- > I had this old RT running for about three years. Several IBM
- > products had been installed which produced hard drive partitions
- > and links to them with VRM. I wanted to recover and reuse the
- > space. I so deleted the partitions using minidisks. I then
- > created a new partition using minidisks. Now to the question.
- > What do I need to do to make VRM happy? On boot its gives me
- > errors about the vrm configuration. It is complaining about the
- > partitions I deleted. What tool do I use to tell VRM that these
- > partitions are deleted?
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- You used the right tools. There must be something else wrong. Was something
- added to /etc/rc "manually" when these partitions were created?
- >
- > P.S. I checked the manuals and I booted the VRM floppies. I
- > checked the configuration and it looks OK. Do I need to install
- > VRM again after I get the configuration correct?
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- Not if minidisks is working.
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- >
- > I feel foolish asking because I just can't seem to remember or find
- > the correct steps to make this process happen. I'm sure that two
- > years ago it would have been obvious. Thanks for any help provided.
- >
- > Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Dept of Mech Engr/FU-10/Seattle, WA 98195 USA
- > ganter@u.washington.edu
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