On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 11:04:14PM +0200, Pramod Daya wrote:
> This may not be the appropriate forum for this topic, so tell me to shove
> off if necessary, but I suspect that there are a lot of wizards here to whom
> this stuff is old hat ...
>
> I'm trying to devise a way to re-install a linux system if the hard drive is
> totally destroyed, and I only have a tar archive on tape and tomsrtbt disk.
> Thus far, I have been able to successfully boot with tomsrtbt, format the
> HD, create partitions, and restore everything from the tape into the right
> place with the right permissions. (I've been experimenting with a HD that
> has just / and /boot partitions).
You can probably use a lot of what I've already done. See 79 Linux Journal
104, November, 2000, and my web page, URL below, for the scripts.
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