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- From: dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Restoring root partition dumps
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 17:24:33 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc.
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- References: <1ii8veINNqib@transfer.stratus.com> <1ii9vvINNpfi@parlo.hal.COM> <1iiev6INNt0k@transfer.stratus.com> <1357@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- In article <1357@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>, jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
- > dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
- >
- > >In article <1ii9vvINNpfi@parlo.hal.COM> paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander) writes:
- > >>In article <1ii8veINNqib@transfer.stratus.com> dswartz@redondo.sw.stratus.com
- > >>(Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
- > >>
-
- [deleted]
-
- > I would guess that if you had moved into /foo, then done a:
- >
- > $ find . -print | cpio -pdmuva /
- >
- > that things would be restored Okay... it's still a major pain though.
- >
- > I also wonder if one could use Eschatology? After all, it's simply a
- > "hidden" file system. If one could convince A/UX Startup to use it (Esc.)
- > as the bootup file system, then restore onto the real root file system...
- > Of course, you would have to make sure that the needed files where available
- > in Esc...
-
- Yeah, this is a major deficiency. All of the various 386 Unixes I've used didn't have
- this problem because you could always boot from the boot floppy, abort into a single-user
- shell and do the restore from there. It seems to me that if the A/UX on the CD-ROM let
- you get a shell up, it would be just as easy. No?
-
- Another thing: if I do try the disaster boot-partition approach, what type should the
- partition be, and how do I tell launch to use it? I tried launch (0,0,n)/unix, where
- "n" is the slice I put my partition in, but it seemed to ignore this. Any ideas?
-
- > Hmmmmmm
- > --
- > Jim Jagielski | "It is not I who am crazy...
- > jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov | it is I who am MAD!"
- > NASA/GSFC, Code 734.4 |
- > Greenbelt, MD 20771 | - Ren
-
- --
-
- #include <std_disclaimer.h>
-
- Dan S.
-