installing ignite-ux tape on other disk

[Amit Jadhav]

Hi,

I have a ignite tape of my root disk (18GB) made by make_recovery -ACvi command. Now I want to install this tape image on another disk of 36GB on the same system.

How I go about it? Can anybody pls help me out about the detail procedure of when and where to specify the scsi address of this new disk...

Thanks,
Amit.

[Carlos Fernandez Riera]

If I recall well before Ignite begin install automaticaly shows a message to stop procedure for few seconds.

Stop it and then you will be able to change disk and many other things. As there is a easy interface, the best is to try it.

[Patrick Wallek]

Since you are using the -i option in your make_recovery command, ignite-ux will automatically come up in interactive mode. There is an option in one of the menus, I believe the first one that comes up when the Ignite interface comues up, that allows you to select which disk drive will be your root disk. Be ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN that the disk you select is the one you want. It only gives the SCSI path of the disk and the size, so be careful. You don't want to wipe out data on another disk.

Once you have selected your new root disk, you are ready to go. If there is nothing else you want to change, tab down to the GO! button and start the re-install. I would advise you though, since you are going to a 36GB disk, to look at resizing all of your logical volumes in root so that you have plenty of space. It is much easier to do it now than to wait and need to do it later.

[boley janowski]

I was curious as to why you want to install a make_recovery to another disk on the same system. If its just for practice thats cool, but if you needed to create another disk to boot from it would be just as easy to mirror the root disk and split if off remembering to make the mirror bootable as well. I only mention this because we often need to be able to recover one box to another, there for prior to making the make_recovery you run a preview to edit the /var/opt/ignite/recovery/arch.include and remove all unneeded /dev/ files and run your make_recovery -r. I was just trying to offer some other things to think about if you haven't already.