bruce@whiskey.USWest.COM (Bruce W. Hoylman) (03/07/89)
Awhile back, during a disk installation, something went "BUMP" and we lost the file system on xy0, the old disk. Not good ... Of coarse we had a full backup, but this was done on an ExaByte tape with a re-built kernel. Naturally, we didn't have a bootable device with the proper kernel configuration to access the ExaByte, so it took a bit of 'tweeking' to get things back together. (We ended up booting from swap space with the appropriate kernel). What a mess!! (The SCSI is rst8 ... the ExaByte is rst1) I'd like to avoid this in the future and would like some info on creating a 1/4" SCSI tape from which I can boot from, activate the ExaByte, and thus give me access to filesystem backups, etc. in case of another "BUMP". Can anyone e-mail the proper procedure for creating something like this?? I owe you one ... in advance. ------ Bruce W. Hoylman, (303)889-6624, US West Advanced Technologies bruce@uswest.com