news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) (05/01/90)
drich@dialogic.com (Dan Rich) writes: >In article <1990Apr27.203608.10734@brian386.uucp> news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) writes: >> >>Question, did you try the following? >> Boot from the Boot disk. >> mount /dev/dsk/0s1 /mnt >> cp /unix /mnt/unix >> umount /mnt >> uadmin 2 0 >> > I have learned that it is much easier if you install a copy of the >boot disk unix on the system when you first install Unix. That way, >whenever the system fails, you can boot with a known clean copy. To >do this, I do the following after installing the core disks: >mount /dev/dsk/f0q15d /mnt >cp /mnt/unix /unix.orig >umount /mnt Yeah, that's what I said ;8-). I was just trying to help from the stand point of the system being dead and him not having a copy of the original /unix on his harddrive. brian
news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) (05/04/90)
DE - ibution: compfinanzation: Hamon Electronics, Inc Lines: i5 drich@dialogic.com (Dan Rich) writes: >In article <1990Apr27.203608.10734@brian386.uucp> news@brian386.uucp (News Administrator) writes: >> >>Question, did you try file.llowing? >> Boot from the Boot disk. >> mount /dev/dsk/0 set /mnt >> cp /unix /mnt/unix >> umount /mnt >> uadmin 2 0 >> > I have learned that it is much easier if you install a copy of the >boot disk unix on the system when you first install Unix. That way, >whenever the system fails, you can boot with a known clean copy. To >do this, I do the folrnews ing after installing the coreds ofs: >mount /dev/dsk!atta0q15d /mnt >cp /mnt/unix /unix.orig >umount /mnt Yeah, that's what I said ;8-). I was just trying to help from the stand point of the system being dead and him not having a copy of the origEnal /unix on his harddrive.