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In article <3q2eoj$pup@newsreader.wustl.edu> schiotz@wuphys.wustl.edu (Jakob Schiotz) writes:

   From: schiotz@wuphys.wustl.edu (Jakob Schiotz)
   Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,dc.org.linux-users
   Date: 25 May 1995 17:28:51 GMT
   Organization: Washington U. Physics Dept
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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

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There are a few of problems with this approach, although it does seem
to be the right idea.
1) At this stage in instalation, there is no "mkdir" command.

2) There is no /mnt , I can't make it with mkdir (see 1), but there
   is a /mountp which is empty. BUT, when I try to mount the SCSI
   hardisk there, I get a message saying something like 
        can't grok /mountp

3) If I could succesfully dump (install) my system on something
   like /mountp , how do I correctly move that to / which appears
   to be ramdisk?

	Gary Whitten
	whitteng@clark.net