From: McCracken, Denise (Denise.McCracken@misyshealthcare.com)
Date: Wed Nov 20 2002 - 18:19:08 EST
Thanks to Pat O'Brien, who suggested using an alternate root drive,
and Dr. Thomas Blinn, who suggested that if the correct disklabel were
already on the disk, the restore would not write a new one.
Unfortunately, I'm dealing with a rack mount box that, the site has
informed me, only has room for one root drive.
Putting the correct disklabel on the disk works great. The disk is
restored just the way the old one was, but, this won't work doing a default
restore onto a different-sized disk, or one that does not already have a
disklabel. I forgot to write down the error, but I tested this with a
larger disk and the boot attempt bombed out big-time.
The only way I can see to replace a single root drive with a larger
one is to boot from the CD and restore from tape. Even then, I'm going to
need the disklabel parameters in advance to either edit the disklabel or
bring a disklabel image in from a floppy and apply it; else the a partition
will be 64 mb no matter what I do. I wonder if there is a disk partitioning
utility that i don't know about, that could be run from the mfs after a CD
boot.
Denise McCracken
MiSys Healthcare Systems
Denise.McCracken@misyshealthcare.com
(520) 570-2521
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