jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley) (01/24/91)
Ready for another 386i sob story?
When doing a restoration of a level 0 dump of the /files partition on a
386i, I run across an interesting problem. When restore, in verbose mode,
reaches the 'restore' binary, it says "extract file
./cluster/sun386.sunos4.0.1/appl/advanced_admin/usr.etc/restore" and dumps
core. I checked the binary file only to find that it is of size 0 (zero).
Hmmm... now I can't finish restoring.
This happened once before, and if I'd been smart enough to figure it out
the first time, I would have copied it to another partition. I've loaded
the OS 3 times already (within the past two days) and it looks like I'm
going to have to do it again. (This time I'll make a copy of the restore
binary.)
Is there some (unwritten) rule about making a copy of your restore binary,
or is this someone else's botch? How (il)legal would it be for me to
accept a uuencoded 'restore' via e-mail from a kind soul?
While I've got your attention, I tried to restore my /usr partition, and
restore told me that it warning "Read only" and died. But, 'mount' says:
/dev/rootg on /usr type 4.2 (rw)
Does anyone have any pointers on this problem or the previous problem
(other than trade it in for a Sparc)?
Thanks,
Darrell McCauley