[rescue] HP9000/715

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Thanks for the info on PA-Linux; I was considering that. I guess I'll
try Ignite UX with the 8mm DAT then break down and purchase the *right*
CD set of HP-UX for this machine...

Steve

Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2001 at 09:41:50PM -0400, ssandau at bath.tmac.com wrote:
> > Maybe I'm spoiled by using SPARCs, but I'm having a terrible time with
> > an HP9000 box. All I want to do is put the OS on a quiet 2Gb drive, as
> > opposed to the noisy 1Gb drive it's on now.
> >
> > I don't quite know enough about dd to copy data that way, and I don't
> > know enough about HP's LVM stuff to just copy everything from one drive
> > to the other with a cp command or something. (I can get both SCSI drives
> > in the box at once.)
> 
> Perhaps make a partition on the 2gb drive indentical to the partition on
> the 1gb drive, then partition the rest as a last partition.  That might
> get you to be able to just dd the partitions from drive to drive (under
> linux something like dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1, for each partition
> needed).
> 
> > Anyone have suggestions? Aside from giving you the hardware. ;)
> 
> Darn, here I was going to ask for the hardware.
> 
> Seriously, get a bootable CD-ROM, and put NextStep on it, or otherwise,
> consider getting an HP-UX cd.  Linux of pa-risc supposedly sucks, and
> HP-UX has a fairly reasonable GL implementation.
> 
> --
> Joshua D. Boyd
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