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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Restoring root partition dumps
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 18:36:02 GMT
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- dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
-
- >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?
-
- I think to do this right, you'd need to make the "backup" partition as a
- /usr-type file system (using 'dp')... When you need to boot up with it,
- use A/UX Startup's 'dp' to change it to 'Root&Usr' file system and change
- your "real" Root file system to something else (/usr-type)...
-
- A/UX Startup should bootup from the backup partition.
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