On Tue, 7 Sep 1999 armijo@cs.unm.edu wrote:
Is there any way to do a maintenance style boot without actually using boot floppies? Maybe by copying the contents of the boot floppies onto a spare disk? The boot command appears to take an argument but I haven't figured out what it is.
this would be very cool, or better yet: 'boot cdrom', which i have heard rumored several times , anyone at NetApp want to confirm/deny this may actually happen?
Yes, please! Given that I just went through an (aborted) upgrade from 5.2.1P2 to 5.3.2 and had to boot the filer a good 10+ times from two floppies in order to get the volume back online, I'm all for this suggestion. That would have saved a good hour of my and the tech support person's time.
And, given that NetApp distributes a CD of the OS with new filers, and one could burn one's own from a downloaded image, with cheap hardware thesedays and prevalent media, that seems a logical choice.
The CD-ROM doesn't even have to be standard equipment, to keep the entry price point low. A ~$100 option for those that want it would be a cheap time-saver.
Until next time...
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