On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like > >OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer, set up the disk partitions, > >and run restore right from there (from tape, presumably a raw drive > >partition as well, I don't know). > > That's one "large-systems" feature which Linux really misses. I wonder if linux's dump is compatible with OpenBSD's restore? That would make bare-metal restores very handy.
Ron, Much of the linux culture (the way to do things) seems to be aimed at (developed by?) windows users. I haven't used windows since 3.1 (and then only for the HARPOON game). Short of getting a job in a "large-systems" shop (not going to happen), do you have any references, hints, etc, on becoming more familiar with large-systems practices/procedures/culture? I'm sitting in front of an HP NetServer LPr PII/450 right now. My first foray into SCSI, hardware mgmt port (with a bit of serial console but you can't access the bios [since there's no F2 on a VT-220]), etc. 1GB ram, hardware RAID, yada yada. Not as computationally powerful as my Athlon64 (nor as physically large), but before I had it sitting on my kitchen table, people didn't say "what the heck is that!" when they walked in. After Christmas, it will be a 3U LTO-2 tape library and a 12-bay hot-swap case. Now I just need to convince my wife that those cool IBM racks with the smoke-glass doors would look great as a wall unit in the livingroom. :) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
