Specifications

Recovering From a System Crash
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Figure 8-12 System Recovery Menu
4. If you have a CD-ROM drive connected to your system and the IRIX CD, click Local
CD-ROM. Then click Accept to start. Insert the CD when prompted. The system
takes five minutes or more to copy the information.
If you don’t have a CD-ROM drive, use a drive that is connected to another system
on the network. Click Remote Directory.
5. When a notifier appears asking you for the remote hostname, type the system’s
name, a colon (:), and the full pathname of the CD-ROM drive, followed by /dist.
For example, to access a CD-ROM drive on the system mars, you type
mars:/CDROM/dist
After everything is copied from the CD to the system disk, you can restore your
data from a recent full backup tape. The backup must be one that has been made
using the System Manager backup tool, or with the /usr/sbin/Backup script.
Tip: Ifyou needto checksomething on your system during the restore process, you
can get a shell prompt by typing sh at most question prompts.
6. If you have a local tape device, you see this message:
Restore will be from <tapename> OK? ([Y]es, [N]o): [Y]
tapename
is the name of the local tape device.