Installing Linux from SCSI tape (tar)

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1 total messages Started by Gary Whitten Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00

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Author: Gary Whitten
Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 00:00

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I am trying to setup a new Linux box by dumping a complete tar tape of
an already running Linux system. I have gotten what appear to be the
correct boot and root floppies from the Slackware (March 1995)
distribution and the necessary commands (tar etc.) seem to work properly
with my SCSI 4mm. tape drive. The problem is that when I try to do the
tar dump the system almost immediately runs out of memory. My guess is that
the active file system is the ramdisk. How do I change the active filesystem
to the proper partition on hard disk? Some documentation indicates that there
may be some LILO boot options to do this (root=/dev/sda1 ?), but my LILO does
not recognize some of the suggested options.

I would appreciate any help or even just some ideas on how to proceed.
	Thanks,
	  Gary Whitten
	  whitteng@clark.net

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