18 Dec
2012
18 Dec
'12
2:23 p.m.
On 12/18/2012 2:09 PM, Jim Stephens wrote:
On 12/18/2012 1:51 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
The good thing here is that, assuming you don't overwrite the original
World distribution files via "Save World" (probably not a good idea) you
can get back to a clean state fairly easily, you just need to clean up
some of the namespace files in the LMFS.
The bad news is, for the 3600 series there really isn't a way for an
end-user to do a complete restore of a system (i.e. if the system disk
fails and needs to be replaced) since Symbolics never released the tools
to do that to the general public. If you need your disk replaced, you
talk to David Schmidt. For the XL series this is a bit easier (still
difficult). The MacIvory systems are by far the easiest to deal with in
this regard.
- Josh
Ah, in that case, read up on the "Define Site" command.
- Josh
I don't know what is possible, but would it not be desirable to back
up the system contents in such a way as to be restorable later from
the least configured state, if you will? It almost sounds like
someone wiped and installed a fresh install, and if there are no
install media or method available backing up the system asap w/o
stepping on it might be the first step.
I'm not sure how important that is given there is still support of
some sort available for the machine.
And I don't know that backing it up is useful if you can't restore it
onto the system easily.
If the only way to back it up is via network then it may be necessary
to initialize things anyway.
jim