i am running a sco unix v3.2 4.2.
a year ago i had a similar problem that i managed to solve it due to the help of PHV.
i need to make another copy of the hd00 . have in mind that i have no instalation diskettes any more.
i placed another blank disk , largen than the old one because i canot find a similar one. i boot from floppy using
the root and boot diskette.
can i run divvy to creat the partitions of the new disk?
or what can i else do to create a new AFS partition to the new disk in order to mount it to the /mnt directory and restore the system back up?
i had run divvy , but the partitions shown were from the old disk. i tried to create a new file system. it seemed that i could do this. but if i run the divvy again the hd0root was not a AFS filesystem as i created but it was renamed to XENIX.
i did not know if that was right so i continued and
i mounted the /dev/hd0root to /mnt directory. i restored the backup and the files were restored to this partition. i could see them after the system restore. i umount the /mnt directory and i restarted the system.
but i got a very fast message, i think it was "hd not ready" and then there was black screean.i could not do anything .
my question is that if i can create another disk (larger than the other one) without using the instalation diskettes.
i have only the system back up of the old disk, the boot and root disketts of the old disk and a blank disk in which i want to restore the system backup