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Article #1285Re: changing disk configuration with VRM
From: Jim Repass
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:17
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:17
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In article <1ikvmjINNg75@shelley.u.washington.edu>, ganter@carson.u.washington.edu (Mark Ganter) writes: > I had this old RT running for about three years. Several IBM > products had been installed which produced hard drive partitions > and links to them with VRM. I wanted to recover and reuse the > space. I so deleted the partitions using minidisks. I then > created a new partition using minidisks. Now to the question. > What do I need to do to make VRM happy? On boot its gives me > errors about the vrm configuration. It is complaining about the > partitions I deleted. What tool do I use to tell VRM that these > partitions are deleted? You used the right tools. There must be something else wrong. Was something added to /etc/rc "manually" when these partitions were created? > > P.S. I checked the manuals and I booted the VRM floppies. I > checked the configuration and it looks OK. Do I need to install > VRM again after I get the configuration correct? Not if minidisks is working. > > I feel foolish asking because I just can't seem to remember or find > the correct steps to make this process happen. I'm sure that two > years ago it would have been obvious. Thanks for any help provided. > > Mark Ganter/Univ of Washington/Dept of Mech Engr/FU-10/Seattle, WA 98195 USA > ganter@u.washington.edu -- Thanks, Jim Repass | Internal - jim@repass.austin.ibm.com ____ IBM-AWS-FST | VNET - REPASS@AUSTIN or REPASS@AUSVM6 / . __ Austin, Tx. | Internet - repass@futserv.austin.ibm.com (_/ / /// Int.ZIP 9461| Phone - (512)-838-8507 (tie)-678-8507
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!geraldo.cc.utexas.edu!portal.austin.ibm.com!awdprime.austin.ibm.com!repass From: repass@austin.ibm.com (Jim Repass) Subject: Re: changing disk configuration with VRM Originator: repass@futserv.austin.ibm.com Sender: news@austin.ibm.com (News id) Message-ID: <C0pEwp.1J5F@austin.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 19:17:13 GMT References: <1ikvmjINNg75@shelley.u.washington.edu> Organization: IBM Corporation, Advanced Workstation Division Keywords: VRM, harddrive Lines: 33