Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!zardoz.cpd.com!tmiuv0!rick From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Disaster Recovery Disk and Driver Installation Message-ID: <2024@tmiuv0.uucp> Date: 4 Jun 90 14:10:18 GMT Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA Lines: 29 Please bear with me -- this may seem like stupid questions but I need answers... First, on an ESIX (386 Unix) system, how would I build a minimal boot disk to recover my system from a CPIO tape from a crash? The tape is a Wangtek 5150 SCSI device. I have the drivers currently installed (obviously!). Second, how difficult is it to embed a foreign device driver in a disk build set? Reason: We are looking at implementing Unix as our system platform, but we need to use a SCSI device driver from a different vendor. The Unix we wish to use doesn't know about this driver, so their build disks don't have it. The SCSI vendor has a driver which will work on a different 386 System V-derived system (if you want the gory details, the other 386 system is SCO Unix, the SCSI vendor I cannot name). What I would like to do is build a system generation diskette set with this driver slapped in. Are these possible? How difficult? Should I seek therapy? -- .-------------------------------------------------------------------------. / [- O] Rick Stevens (All opinions are mine. Everyone ignores them anyway.) \ | ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------| | V | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick (<-- Work (ugh!)) | |--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop (<-- Home Unix (better!)) | | uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2 (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!) | \ 75006.1355@compuserve.com (CIS: 75006,1355) (<-- CI$) / `-------------------------------------------------------------------------' "I was Caesarean born. When I leave the house, I use the window." - Steven Wright