TeRrAc (terrac@sharon.net)
Wed, 30 Sep 1998 09:49:31 -0700 (PDT)
I am gonna do something similar to this. once i get all of this up anf
functional. Pulling the working drive from the ans and ghosting it in a pc
I have near by onto an identical drive, and sendingti to a friend who is
not totally entusiatic but would like to tgry it on his.
Side note.. what is the total count of ans machines owned by people on
this list. reply that one to me direct and I'll post a count.
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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, stewart walker wrote:
> >Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 15:23:37 -0400
> >From: Dave Beck <dave@arginine.umdnj.edu>
> >To: stewart walker <swalker@mta.ca>
> >Subject: Re: format HD questions
> >Mime-Version: 1.0
> >
> >See.. this is some wacky issue I had to deal with.. Luckily I found a cable
> >that allowed me to (as ungodly as it sounds) attach a fast wide drive directly
> >to a SCSI 2 (DB 25 pin external mac SCSI) port. Then, using a patched version
> >of Apple HD SC SCSI setup I formated/intialized the disk to be an apple drive,
> >then I put the drive back into the ANS and used linux's pdisk to remove
> >the HFS
> >partitions and put on the ext2fs bad boys...
> >
> >NOW.. once all this had been done (and because all my ANS's have the same 4gig
> >seagate baracuda model) I dd'ed off the first 512k of the disk and then, when
> >I wanted to partition a new (old AIX formated drive) linux drive I used that
> >dd image and via another dd slaped it onto the front of the new disk...
> >
> >So in short: I used a mac to make an original partition table for that
> >size/model
> >drive... then I used dd to make imagesa of the parition table to slap onto new
> >drives of the same size/model.
> >
> >Yes.. it is ugly..
> >
> >Quoting stewart walker (swalker@mta.ca):
> >> I have the ANS 500 working OK.
> >> I installed linuxppc on a 7300, then replaced vmlinux, then put it on the
> >> internal bus.
> >>
> >> How do I reformat/partition the existing fast/wide SCSI hard drive that
> >> came with the ANS500 to do an install on it?
> >>
> >> installer.coff doesn't work, No other machines with fast/wide SCSI hard
> >>disks.
> >>
> >
> >--
> >Dave Beck
> >dave@arginine.umdnj.edu Sites of interest (set 3):
> >Computer Science and Biology
> >http://selene.biochem.uga.edu/tutorial/
> >Drexel University, Philadelphia PA http://www.cold.org/
> >
>
>
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