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From: garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: PACKDISK with 1 filesystem
Keywords: PACKDISK
Message-ID: <456@gallium.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 89 07:51:16 GMT
References: <106@avatar.UUCP>
Reply-To: garyb@gallium.UUCP (Gary Blumenstein)
Organization: gallium, Wingdale NY
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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 --
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Gary Blumenstein, UNIX Network Administrator // CIBA-GEIGY CORPORATION, USA
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