Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!boulder!gore!jacob From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: dump onto OD Message-ID: <130043@gore.com> Date: 9 Dec 89 03:49:51 GMT References: Reply-To: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) Organization: Gore Enterprises Lines: 13 / comp.sys.next / gerrit@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Gerrit) / Dec 8, 1989 / > [about doing a full restore from an OD to the only partition on the hard > disk] There > are also a few other complications, like where is your kernel at that > time - I would probably net boot the machine in question [...] Is it possible to boot off an OD, then restore off another? That is, can you boot off the OD, then mount and newfs /dev/sd0a, then restore from /dev/od1a, after ejecting the disk you booted from? Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob