tlug: Sparc ramdisks

["Frank Bennett (=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJVUlaSVzJS8kWSVNJUMlSBsoQg==?= )" <bennett@example.com>]

Dear all,

We have two identical Sparc SS5's here, one of which is our mail server. 
We would like to set up the spare machine so that it is a hot mirror of
the first.  In order to get things going, I would like to dd the disk data
direct from one machine to the other.  On an Intel box, I know that I can
do this by building a kernel image and a root disk image, using "rdev" to
set the kernel to prompt for insertion of the root disk, uncompress the
root floppy contents to a ramdisk, and mount that as root.  Building the
floppies by hand is nice, because I can add stuff (like the "dd" command) 
to the rescue floppy from my existing system.

Does anyone know if there a command similar to "rdev" for Sparc Linux?

Cheers,
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Frank G Bennett, Jr         @@
Faculty of Law, Nagoya Univ () email: bennett@example.com
Tel: +81[(0)52]789-2239     () WWW:   http://rumple.soas.ac.uk/~bennett/

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