Recovery diskette.
Adrian Miranda
ade at clark.uucp
Sat Jun 30 11:00:38 AEST 1990
Thanks to those who responded to my question about creating a recovery
diskette that would create the correct number of partitions on my hard
drive. (Conor P. Cahill, Steve Nuchia, and I think someone else.)
I do have a few more questions. As a reminder we are running ESIX
System V R3.2 on a Cheetah 486, and the regular install procedure
refuses to create enough partitions. I want a diskette that will
partition the drive then load the backup off tape after a hard drive
failure. It was suggested that I keep a copy of the final
/etc/partitions on my diskette, and run mkpart to set up the
partitions. Now, of course I need to run mkpart for the root, usr,
swap, etc, partitions. But there are some extra entries in my
/etc/partitions file for reserved, alts, and trkalt, whatever those
are. Do I need to run mkpart for these as well? Also, when I run
mkfs, should I be specifying gap, and blocks/cylinder? If so, how do
I determine gap?
Once again, if anyone has a working recovery diskette for UNIX/386,
I would certainly be interested in seeing it, or at least the script
that does the work. Thanks in advance.
Adrian Miranda
uunet!clark!ade
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