Sara Bradley wrote:
> I will be adding a new disk drive, a RZ28M-VA, to our DEC Alpha
> running 4.0B and was hoping someone could verify my procedure for
> doing this. (This is the first time we have added additional drives
> and are not comfortable with UNIX!!
>
> - Make a copy of the existing VMUNIX file
> - Rebuild the generic kernel to include the new drive
> - Run DOCONFIG -C with the new generic kernel to modify our
> system's configuration file.
> - Move the new VMUNIX file to root directory
> - Reboot
> - MAKEDEV
> - Partition disk
> - NEWFS, etc,,,
>
> The system administration book makes reference to static drives and
> loadable drives - what is the difference?
I am myself looking into adding a drive, but I was under the impression that the
system didn't need to reboot to do that, if the drive is hot swappable, I
thought it could just be formatted/partitionned and then mounted and used
without having to shut down anything, is that true or not?
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Received on Mon Dec 15 1997 - 23:54:09 NZDT