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Gary Whitten (whitteng@act1.clark.net) wrote:
: 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 suppose you have already crated a Linux parition with fdisk and created
the filesystem with mkfs.  Then mount the disk "mount /dev/sda1 /mnt" (if
there is no /mnt create the directory with mkdir).  Then cd to /mnt and
unpack your tar file.

DISCLAIMER: I have never tried something like this, there may be a horrible
pitfall that I am not aware of.  But this is how I would try to do it.


Jakob Schiotz
schiotz@howdy.wustl.edu