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Title:SEAL
Moderator:GALVIA::SMITH
Created:Mon Mar 21 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1989
Total number of notes:8209

1730.0. "UNIX help, please" by QUICHE::PITT (Alph a ha is better than no VAX!) Wed Jan 22 1997 08:20

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1730.1oopsANNECY::CHATEL_MWed Jan 22 1997 10:308
1730.2QUICHE::PITTAlph a ha is better than no VAX!Wed Jan 22 1997 12:125
1730.3disklabel -z ??KYOSS1::MONTAREAlex MontareWed Jan 22 1997 15:008
1730.4QUICHE::PITTAlph a ha is better than no VAX!Thu Jan 23 1997 04:073
1730.5disklabel -z will overwrite label!KYOSS1::MONTAREAlex MontareThu Jan 23 1997 10:3913
1730.6BIGUN::nessus.cao.dec.com::MayneWake up, time to dieThu Jan 23 1997 17:5411
1730.7QUICHE::PITTAlph a ha is better than no VAX!Fri Jan 24 1997 05:4517
I think I confused you all.  I don't want to change partition sizes.  That's the
whole point.  However, I need to write a bootblock on the disk.  I think I could
have managed this if the disk had the standard label, but it doesn't.

Anyway, thanks to the Atlanta CSC, who responded on the Digital UNIX notesfile,
I have now managed to do what I want.

For the full details of building a bootable copy of the root partition on a
second disk, then see the appropriate page (that hasn't been written yet!) on
the firewall hints and tips Web site on sector.gmt.dec.com.  (It'll be written
shortly, honest!)

However, what you have to do is to store the disklabel on another disk, and then
use -R to restore it, specifying that you want an advfs bootblock when you do
it.  It works - I tried it here.

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