Switching disks in a workstation

[Brendan Newport]

I have a customer with an old(ish) C180 workstation with a single 4GB disk. They've sourced a 9GB disk, and I'd like to switch over to the 9GB with as little aggro as possible.

What would be the best way to perform the switch? I have an Ignite backup I could conceivably restore to the new disk.

On SGI I've performed a recursive tar or xfs/efs dump to do the same (albeit not a good process.)

Thanks in anticipation


Bren

[MANOJ SRIVASTAVA]

Hi Brendan


You need to do the following :

1. use -i in ignite to make the OS COPY so that when you reload the OS you can get inot interactive options so that the filesystems sizes can be changed.

2. Check for the SCSI ID's of the root disk and ensure that the new disk also has the same id ( this is very important incase you ahve multiple disk).

3. Switch disk and boot form the ignite , restore the OS after setting the filesystems size ( this you need to ascertain before ).

Please donot overwrite on the first disk till you got the new disk working.

All the best.


Manoj Srivastava

[Wodisch]

Hello Brendan,

get the free software "Ignite/UX" and install the
"Minimal Runtime" onto your workstation. Then create
a bootable copy of your whole disk on tape with
make_recovery -A -i

Now, shutdown your system, exchange the old disk
with the new one, turn on the power and interrupt
the booting process with the ESC key.
Now SEArch for bootable devices and boot from that
tape.
You will get a dialog to restore your disk from that tape,
and that would be, what you'll do (perhaps increase the
sizes of your filesystems first, always a smart move ;-).

If it does NOT work go back to that old disk.

HTH,
Wodisch

[Brendan Newport]

Looks like my first thought about Ignite is the one...