Hi,
I was able to make OSF/1 V3.0 run on a DEC 3000/300 that has only
two RZ23L disks (these disks were taken off older machines and
reused on the alpha). Here's what I did:
1. Install one of the RZ23L disks of Machine A on another 3000/300
(Machine B) which has one RZ24 and already has V3.0 installed
(root and /var and swap space are on RZ24, /usr is NFS-mounted).
2. Partition the RZ23L on Machine B using disklabel: partition a is
about 80MB, to be used for root; partition d is about 40MB, to be
used for /var.
Create a new file system on these two partitions using newfs.
3. Mount partition a of the RZ23L to /mnt and dump Machine B's root
onto /mnt, with
dump -0f - / | (cd /mnt; restore -xf -)
4. Edit /mnt/etc/fstab so that root, /var, and swap will be mounted
with the right devices on Machine A.
Relink /mnt/sbin/swapdefault to the device file for the other RZ23L
on Machine A.
5. Umount partion a of the RZ23L, and mount its d partion to /mnt.
Dump Machine B's /var to /mnt, with
dump -0f - /var | (cd /mnt; restore -xf -)
6. Install the RZ23L back onto Machine A and boot it to multi-user mode.
7. Change the hostname and IP address by running /usr/sbin/setup and
reconfiguring the network interface ln0.
8. Reboot the machine.
Many thanks to the following people who responded or whose articles posted
previously helped me:
Selden E Ball Jr seb_at_lns62.lns.cornell.edu
Dr. Thomas P. Blinn tpb_at_zk3.dec.com
Eugene Chu chu_at_musp0.jpl.nasa.gov
Austin L. Conaty austin_at_atmos.umd.edu
Knut Helleboe Knut.Hellebo_at_nho.hydro.com
John Kinsella johnk_at_water.ca.gov
pam lassen_at_tle.enet.dec.com
Alan Rollow alan_at_nabeth.cxo.dec.com
Cary Talbot talbot_at_albert.wes.army.mil
Regards,
Yizhong Zhou
University of Southern Maine
zhou_at_usmcs.maine.edu
Received on Sat Feb 25 1995 - 11:59:35 NZDT