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- From: mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: rootvg restores by inode
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.082416.1337@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 08:24:16 GMT
- References: <1992Sep3.181334.13202@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- Actually, I'm in the process of modifying a boot diskette so that I can
- reinstall over the net using backups (full and incremental) made with
- GNU tar. This is not trivial. Hence, I'm also trying to insure that I
- don't have to do this again till at least 3.3, by having it make the
- BLV from the restored kernel.
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- It would be very preferable, as you indicate, to be able to boot a
- minimal system from which I can do whatever I please. This became most
- clear to me when the 3.2 installation completely failed on my machine
- and I had to do it by hand. (The even sadder part is that the bug
- which caused it to fail will probably never be fixed, and it will
- happen again next time, and I still won't have a "mini-root". SIGH.
- At least I know the ins and outs of the LVM now.)
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