I posted this maybe a week or two and got no responses; I'm trying again
now in case someone new on the list has some insights. . .
I'm running Linux Mandrake 7.1 and have an HP 8GB internal IDE tape
drive. I use the ide-scsi module for tape access (/dev/hdd <->
/dev/st0), which seems to work great.
My questions:
1) How do I make devices on a bootfloppy so ide-scsi will work from said
bootfloppy? Using DrakFloppy, I created a disk and told it to pre-load
ide-scsi, but the only devices on the floppy are /dev/hdb6 and /dev/fd0.
2) I'm shooting for a ``painless'' recovery plan, so what is the best
way to backup data (using only GNU tools that come with a common Linux
distribution)? I'm thinking something like
tar cvzpf /dev/st0 --exclude /proc /
after unmounting the cdrom, floppy, and windoze
partition.
3) Which programs do I need on the boot floppy? fdisk, mke2fs, mount,
umount, tar, gzip sound like good choices, but what else do I need?
4) Are these the steps to recovery I need to follow, or have I left out
something?
a) boot to floppy
b) create partitions with fdisk
c) recreate file systems with mke2fs
d) mount new file systems (e.g., /mnt/, /mnt/home, /mnt/tmp, etc.)
e) restore data from tape: cd /mnt; tar xzvpf /dev/st0
5) lilo and grub: If I want to use lilo, all I have to do next is run
`lilo /mnt/etc/lilo.conf' right? If I'm using grub, though, how do I
update the mbr?
Thanks for any help with these questions. If all this is in a HOWTO
which I missed, I apologize for the superfluous posting. . .
---Norvell Spearman
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``Trouble is my business.''
---Philip Marlowe
