boy oh boy -- an *on topic* conversation (she says pointedly <ahem>).....

"rosenblatt, joseph" wrote:

> To recover the system volume do the following:
> 1. Replace the bad drive
> 2. Insert your current CSLT into the dat drive.
> 3. At the Boot Menu type BO ALT (If you are not sure that your Alternate
> Path is your dat drive then verify your dat drive via the Search Command.)

it is *ever* so helpful to know this sort of thing ahead of time (on a system
with multiple tape drives).  it saves a great deal of stomach churning....

> 6. After your system come back up Restore @[log in to unmask] with the KEEP option

chuck's already noted that you need to do a 'restore;...;directory' to get
your accounts -- posix stuff -- back onto the system with the correct
permissions.

> 7. You may need to recreate some of the communications files in the NET
> group.

hmmm....dunno about this.  i'm not disagreeing, i just don't know....

see my comments in the next email....          - d

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