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From: romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Question on restoring Ultrix root partition
Message-ID: <610@pyrnj.uucp>
Date: Tue, 5-May-87 17:45:01 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  5 17:45:01 1987
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In article <1085@brand.UUCP> weber@brand.UUCP (Allan G. Weber) writes:
| I followed the normal
| Ultrix installation procedure up to the point where it had copied a
| minisystem to the disk.  After booting that it asked if I wanted to
| procede with the installation, and I said no, which got me a # prompt
| and a message to halt the system or something like that.  At that
| point, I figured I could create the root partition and restore the
| files from tape but "newfs" and "restore" didn't seem to be there.
| Neither was "ls" so I couldn't figure out what was there.

When you're left in the miniroot in Ultrix 1.1 and 1.2, you can see
what files are around by using "echo .??* *".  /bin/cat is not there,
but you can use "dd if=/.profile" as a substitute for "cat /.profile".
If you have a dd copy of root, you can simply dd from backup tape to
your normal root partition.

The rest of the distribution media (last I saw) comes from tar tapes or
floppies.  mkfs and tar are provided, so you can build a full partition
where / or /usr might normally go (provided they reside on supported
controllers and media) and read "restore" in.  (The boot system on a
floppy is read-only; I don't remember what's on the distribution tape.)

Good luck...
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Romain Kang		{allegra,cmcl2,mirror,pyramid,rutgers}!pyrnj!romain
Pyramid Technology Corp. / 10 Woodbridge Center. Dr / Woodbridge, NJ  07095

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