From: JOSEPH KREMBLAS (jkremblas@REDHEARTGIFTS.COM)
Date: Sat Jan 17 2004 - 11:48:14 EST
Make sure you execute the bosboot -ad command on the tape device; this will
make the tape bootable. This should be executed before the dd commands.
--joseph
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From: IBM AIX Discussion List [mailto:aix-l@Princeton.EDU] On Behalf Of
Paul. Vanchope
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 2:51 AM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: do mksysb using remote host's tape driver
Two hosts ; A and B
A has an internal tape driver, while B not.
In order to do mksysb for B, the following commands could be executed: B#
mknod /tmp/rootbuf.fifo d A# rsh B dd if=/tmp/rootbuf.fifo | dd of=/dev/rmt0
B# smitty mksysb (select "/tmp/rootbuf" as the backup device)
But i did not know whether this mksysb tape was bootable .
Any one knows ?
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