rescue

From - Tue Sep 21 15:22:09 1999 Return-Path: Received: from gw.rebel.com (gate.rebel.com [207.245.35.200]) by www.netwinder.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA29243 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:20:26 -0400 Received: from fiji.isa.ott.rebel.com by gw.rebel.com via smtpd (for netwinder.org [207.245.35.202]) with SMTP; 17 Sep 1999 16:17:50 UT Received: from rebel.com ([10.1.19.135]) by fiji.isa.ott.rebel.com (Netscape Messaging Server 3.6) with ESMTP id AAA5777 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:21:50 -0400 Message-ID: <37E26A59.25C7967A@rebel.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:20:41 -0400 From: Phil Petruzzo Organization: rebel.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: el,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ralph Siemsen Subject: rescue image instructions. Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------00C0FEB0C2ADFD84F465F016" Status: X-Mozilla-Status: 9001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 374c444e0000169e This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------00C0FEB0C2ADFD84F465F016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hey Ralph. Here is the instructions I came up with, on how to install the rescue partition. If you put this up, you will also want to put the rescue.tar.gz file in the right place (/pub/netwinder/images). Let me know if you need something else. bye file:///E|/temp/Beta/Specialteas/rescue.html --------------00C0FEB0C2ADFD84F465F016 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii; name="rescue.html" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="rescue.html" rescue

Installing the rescue disk image in the /dev/hda4 partition.

The following procedure is for NetWinder's shipped with 4 partitions. hda1, hda2 your swap partition, hda3, and hda4 is a small (10 mb) unused partition. To confirm this, use fdisk and print out the partition table. It should look like the following.

Device boot                Start        End        Blocks         Id        System
/dev/hda1                    1            3895        1963048+ 83        Linux Native
/dev/hda2                    3896      4026        66024        82        Linux Swap
/dev/hda3                    4027      7921        19630480 83        Linux Native
/dev/hda4                    7922      7944        11592        83        Linux Native

*Note: the numbers would change depending on the size of your drive.

*** Getting the rescue image onto the hda4 partition. ***

1. Login as root
2. Get the rescue partition file off of netwinder.org anonymous ftp. (/pub/netwinder/images/rescue.tar.gz)
3. Format the hda4 partition. ( mke2fs /dev/hda4 )
4. Mount the hda4 partition on /mnt. ( mount /dev/hda4 /mnt )
5. Change directory to the mount point, and untar the rescue image. ( tar zxvf /root/rescue.tar.gz )

*** Booting the rescue partition ***

1. Stop the autoboot sequence as the NetWinder boots. (e.g. Autoboot - press any key to abort autoboot [5..4..   )
2. Type the following commands at the firmware prompt
            setenv    kerndev    /dev/hda4
            setenv    rootdev    /dev/hda4
            boot
3. That will do it, you should now be booting the rescue partition. Follow the instructions from the shell to do whatever maintenance you need to do. Many scripts have been included to make your life easier.

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