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From: leclair@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Jeanne Leclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: 386i system rebuilds
Keywords: 386i
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Date: 28 Apr 91 19:20:00 GMT
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I recently began supporting some 386i's.  When a hard disk crashed I did
the usual things:  boot off floppy (in this case, floppy is our bootable
media), rebuilt the filesystems, and recovered from a recent dump tape.
Then I tried to run "installboot" without success.  Then I found out about
"bootsd".  I know these machines probably aren't in widepsread use these
days, but I was hpoing someone would be able to tell me if the boot,
restore disk, bootsd plan works (I don't want to repartition a disk as
"practice" again to find out).  Up to this point I've been completely
reinstalling the system then selectively restoring from tape.  I'm an
experienced Sun-3/SPARC administrator, having trouble with the differences
on the 386is.

Thanks for any help you can provide.  Mail responses would be best
considering the audience for this topic.

Jeanne
(leclair@herky.cs.uiowa.edu)