Hi managers
my DEC-Alpha 500 au is running out of disk space. So I have bought
a new SCSI hard disk which is similar to the first SCSI disk. The new
disk space is 9 GB (the old one has 4.3 GB). The operating system is
Digital-Unix 4.0D.
I have looked for the installation advice in the
installation guide, but I still dont know what to do.
My questions are:
1. Do I have to do a special backup of all the system files in case
something goes wrong?
2. Can I install the new hard disk in the tower, connect it like it
is showed in the manual and then just reboot the system?
3. Does the system recognize the new hard disk when it reboots?
4. Do I have to recompile the kernel and if yes, how?
The new hard disk will only have data from calculations on it. So
there shouldnt be any root directory or something like that.
I think it should be possible to mount the new partition with e.g.
/data and then just save all the data on it.
5. My old hard disk is mounted on /dev/rz16. Do I have to choose the
file /dev/... for the new hard disk, or does the system choose this
file itself?
Can anybody give me an understandable description what to do ?
Thanks in advance
Martina Hofmann
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Dipl.-Ing. Martina Hofmann
Institut fuer Elektrische Energiewandlung
Landgraf-Georg-Strasse 4
64283 Darmstadt
Tel.: 06151-16-4294, Fax: 06151-16-6033
email: mhofmann_at_ew.tu-darmstadt.de
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Received on Wed Jan 27 1999 - 13:23:59 NZDT