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- From: jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
- Subject: Re: Restore root partitions...
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:19:58 GMT
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- dswartz@sw.stratus.com (Dan Swartzendruber) writes:
-
- >A couple of people have made the helpful suggestion of creating a minimal
- >A/UX on a seperate 80MB (or whatever) hard disk. As much as I appreciate
- >the attempt to help, this isn't very useful. I've already shelled out
- >enough $$$ for my system without dropping another couple of hundred for a
- >hard disk I won't use except for emergencies. Thanks to the person who
- >pointed out that one needs to use kconfig on the /unix in the emergency
- >partition to tell it to run off that partition and not the real root.
- >It worked. I am now in the middle of putting together a package to create
- >an emergency filesystem on a specified partition. Maybe Jim can put it on
- >jagubox with the other goodies when I'm done.
-
- Why of course :)
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