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From: bob@kahala.hig.hawaii.edu (Bob Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: procedures for restoring root partition wrong in SunOS4.0 manual
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Date: 22 Dec 88 16:37:42 GMT
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Bad news:  you've somehow trashed your root partition; but (good news!)
you have a recent level 0 dump.  You turn to Chapter 7 of the System
Administration manual, page 103 or thereabouts, and start the procedures
listed there.  But, nothing works right...  Have faith; it's not your
fault that nothing works right at this point, the procedures in the manual
are both wrong and misleading.

Before this happens to you, go through and pencil in the following changes
to pages 103 & 104 in Chapter 7 ("Regular Maintenance") in your SunOS4.0
System Administration Procedures manual:

	In step 2:

		change "st(0,0,4)" to "st(0,0,2)"
		change "st(0,0,5)" to "st(0,0,3)"
		change "-as" to "-asw"

	and, in subsequent steps:

		change all occurances of "/usr/etc" to "/etc"