kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) (10/25/89)
I picked up a copy of PACKDISK with the Xenix/386 modifications. PACKDISK needs to have the file system its compressing to be unmounted for obvious reasons. I only have 1 filesystem on my drive (root). Can I create a boot floppy and run packdisk off of that? If so, do I tell packdisk to pack /dev/hd0? Any help for by really appreciated. Thanks, --kory -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kory Hamzeh UUCP: ..!uunet!psivax!quad1!avatar!kory INTERNET: avatar!kory@quad.com
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (10/25/89)
kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes: >I picked up a copy of PACKDISK with the Xenix/386 modifications. PACKDISK >needs to have the file system its compressing to be unmounted for >obvious reasons. I only have 1 filesystem on my drive (root). Can >I create a boot floppy and run packdisk off of that? If so, do I >tell packdisk to pack /dev/hd0? You run packdisk off of the boot floppy, and pack disk /dev/hd0root. It will take a bit longer if you are a little short on memory. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
darko@hpspcoi.HP.COM (David Arko) (10/25/89)
I would say that making a bootable floppy would be your best bet. If Xenix floppys are the same as SCO Unix 3.2, you want to refer to the hard disk root partition as /dev/hd0root, notice that this device is not on the hard disk, but it gets created when you make a boot floppy. You also have to remember to copy all the 'extra' utilities onto the floppy filesystem before you boot off it. Hope this helps... David Arko darko@hpspcoi.hp.com
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (10/26/89)
When you boot from a floppy the root is usually called /dev/hd0root -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) (10/27/89)
From article <1194@ispi.UUCP>, by jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer): > kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes: > You run packdisk off of the boot floppy, and pack disk /dev/hd0root. > It will take a bit longer if you are a little short on memory. I made a standard boot & root floppy and kept getting: kernel: WARNING: out of swap space Can this be safely ignored, or must I hand hack up a floppy with more swap space? This was on a machine with 6MB of main memory, approx 2MB of which is used by the kernel (I use a BIG disk cache) j |%|John Lawitzke, Dale Computer Corp., R&D |%|UUCP: uunet!frith!dale1!jhl Work |%| uunet!frith!dale1!ipecac!jhl Home Inquiring minds just wondering. |%|Internet: jhl@frith.egr.msu.edu
jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) (10/27/89)
usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: >From article <1194@ispi.UUCP>, by jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer): >> kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes: >> You run packdisk off of the boot floppy, and pack disk /dev/hd0root. >> It will take a bit longer if you are a little short on memory. >I made a standard boot & root floppy and kept getting: >kernel: WARNING: out of swap space >Can this be safely ignored, or must I hand hack up a floppy with more I wouldn't ignore it. Create a special kernel which uses about 300k of disk buffers. JB -- Jonathan Bayer Intelligent Software Products, Inc. (201) 245-5922 500 Oakwood Ave. jbayer@ispi.COM Roselle Park, NJ 07204
simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales) (10/27/89)
In article <5140@cps3xx.UUCP> usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner) writes: >I made a standard boot & root floppy and kept getting: > >kernel: WARNING: out of swap space > >Can this be safely ignored, or must I hand hack up a floppy with more >swap space? This was on a machine with 6MB of main memory, approx >2MB of which is used by the kernel (I use a BIG disk cache) > Is it possible to set up a root-boot floppy that uses the hard disk for swap space? Looking in /etc/default/boot on both the floppy and the hd seem to indicate this can be done... Has anyone tried? -- Simon Gales@The University of Kentucky simon@ms.uky.edu | 'Fate... protects fools, little children, simon@UKMA.BITNET | and ships named Enterprise.' {rutgers, uunet}!ukma!simon | - Riker, ST:TNG
garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein) (10/29/89)
In article <106@avatar.UUCP> kory@avatar.UUCP (Kory Hamzeh) writes: >I picked up a copy of PACKDISK with the Xenix/386 modifications. PACKDISK >needs to have the file system its compressing to be unmounted for >obvious reasons. I only have 1 filesystem on my drive (root). Can >I create a boot floppy and run packdisk off of that? If so, do I >tell packdisk to pack /dev/hd0? I did this by creating a bootable floppy and using mknod(C) to create a device for the hard disk on the floppy. Place packdisk in the floppy's /bin directory and run it by specifying the character special device file. For example, if the hard disk block device is named /dev/hd0root then the character device would be /dev/rhd0root. For the most happiness and enjoyment, run fsck both in front and behind packdisk. Ref. See DiSCOver, Mar/Apr 1988 for more info on creating rootable/bootable floppies and device files. -- Gary -- -- Gary Blumenstein, UNIX Network Administrator // CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION, USA =========================================================================== Voice: (914) 347-4700 7 Skyline Drive, Hawthorne, NY 10532 FAX : (914) 347-5687 uucp: ...{philabs, gaboon}!crpmks!{sysadm, garyb}