Re: A question about restore after a disk disaster

Hi,

my tests with RIP-14.2 were successfull.
The star version is really 1.5a64 and i could read my 
three-CD star archive without problems via an old
SCSI CD-ROM /dev/sr0 and via an IDE CD-RW burner /dev/hdc.

There is no doubt that i could create the necessary
partitions and filesystems of desired type. If not with
RIP (i didn't touch my hard disks yet) then with some
consumer Linux distribution.


Now the last gap is the disk partition layout.
In the texts of  usr/doc/RIP  in the  rootfs.cgz  archive
i found sfdisk :
  sfdisk -d /dev/hda > textfile
  sfdisk /dev/hda < textfile
I will try to make use of this by a script which gets 
generated at backup time. At restore time it shall tell
some info about partitions, filesystems, mount points and
offer to restore the partition table. (After three
confirmation prompts and disclaimers, of course.)

Joerg, is there a way to have the script with the partition
table description located early in the star level=0 archive ? 
Some trick about the name or so ?
Since that script would have to be extracted to the RIP
RAM disk prior to the big restore, it would be very helpful
if it could be found quickly. A separate media would be
unelegant.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas