Disaster Recovery Disk and Driver Installation
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
rick at tmiuv0.uucp
Tue Jun 5 00:10:18 AEST 1990
Please bear with me -- this may seem like stupid questions but I need
answers...
First, on an ESIX (386 Unix) system, how would I build a minimal boot disk
to recover my system from a CPIO tape from a crash? The tape is a Wangtek
5150 SCSI device. I have the drivers currently installed (obviously!).
Second, how difficult is it to embed a foreign device driver in a disk build
set? Reason: We are looking at implementing Unix as our system platform,
but we need to use a SCSI device driver from a different vendor. The Unix
we wish to use doesn't know about this driver, so their build disks don't
have it. The SCSI vendor has a driver which will work on a different 386
System V-derived system (if you want the gory details, the other 386 system
is SCO Unix, the SCSI vendor I cannot name). What I would like to do is
build a system generation diskette set with this driver slapped in.
Are these possible? How difficult? Should I seek therapy?
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