leclair@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeanne Leclair) (04/29/91)
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@herky.cs.uiowa.edu)