Import? vg00

[hpnovice2004]

Let me first say that I am not a unix person. I'm more into PCs. But recently, I've been playing more and more with unix(HP). I made an image of the boot drive just to see if I can mount it on the same system, and so far, I haven't been successful. My boot drive is scsi.6.0 and the other drive is scsi.5.0. My workstation is 715/100. I know with PCs, all I have to do is to plug the image drive to an available ID slot and it would recognize it and I would be able to read/write to it. I tried reading scsi.5 with SAM but it states that the drive is unused. When I try to get some further details about the drive, no additional info is returned since it's unused. My first question is.
- How do I mount this image drive or access information from it?
- Secondly, is there a command view partition/filesystem info of a foreign drive?

Thank you in advance for your support.

 

[Chacalinc]

2 things:

1. yes, you need to inform to HP-UX about the "Volume Group" configured in the disk.

man vgimport

you should do:

# mkdir /dev/vgtemp
# mknod /dev/vgtemp/group c 64 0xHH0000 (HH = minor number)
# vgimport /dev/vgtemp /dev/dsk/cXt5d0

# vgdisplay -v vgtest

# mount /dev/vgtest/lvolx /mnt

2. HP boxes has configured *which* disk drive it must use to boot.

Cheers.