386i system rebuilds

[Jeanne Leclair]

I recently began supporting some 386i's.  When a hard disk crashed I did
the usual things:  boot off floppy (in this case, floppy is our bootable
media), rebuilt the filesystems, and recovered from a recent dump tape.
Then I tried to run "installboot" without success.  Then I found out about
"bootsd".  I know these machines probably aren't in widepsread use these
days, but I was hpoing someone would be able to tell me if the boot,
restore disk, bootsd plan works (I don't want to repartition a disk as
"practice" again to find out).  Up to this point I've been completely
reinstalling the system then selectively restoring from tape.  I'm an
experienced Sun-3/SPARC administrator, having trouble with the differences
on the 386is.

Thanks for any help you can provide.  Mail responses would be best
considering the audience for this topic.

Jeanne
(leclair at herky.cs.uiowa.edu)