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- From: jackn@caspianc.ism.isc.com (Jack Neman)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: How to re-add drive1 after drive0 failure and re-install?
- Message-ID: <17phd4INNcps@smaug.West.Sun.COM>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 04:04:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.220737.24197@jdsny.com>
- Organization: SunSoft Inc., Los Angeles, Ca.
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- In article <1992Aug27.220737.24197@jdsny.com> rob@jdsny.com (Rob Yampolsky) writes:
- >System is Interactive 3.0, problem is this:
- >Boot disk got clobbered and had to re-install. There is still a good
- >filesystem on drive1, but the menu system won't let me tell the system
- >it's there. It keeps wanting me to build filesystems over the good one.
- >
- >I guess this is the same as if I wanted to move a disk with its data intact
- >from one system to another.
- >
- >Isn't there some way to do this without re-partitioning the disk and
- >restoring the data from tape?
-
- Yes there is. Reinstall the first disk again. Reconfiure HPDD with the
- controller you have and 2 drives. Reboot the machine with new kernel.
- Use the mount command and mount /dev/dsk/c0t1s1 to mount the first
- partition of 2nd disk.
-