Re: mksysb restore "not enough disk space selected"

From: Nguyen, Andy (Andy.Nguyen_at_BELLSOUTH.COM)
Date: 05/30/03

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    Christian,

    You will need to break the mirrors on the mksysb image first before you can
    restore it to any system. I have a three pages instruction on how to
    accomplish this. I can fax it to you if you want. It'll take me forever to
    type three pages here.

    Andy

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Christian Lair [mailto:Christian_Lair@I2.COM]
    Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:38 PM
    To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
    Subject: mksysb restore "not enough disk space selected"

    I'm trying to do a mksysb restore from a system with 2 18GB mirrored rootvg
    drives to a new machine with 2 36GB drives. When the system boots from the
    mksysb and starts the install it reports the following error:

    "not enough disk space selected to contain os"

    There has to be enough space on the new disk, its twice the size of the old
    one. Has anyone else seen this or
    know of a workaround?

    Thanks,
    Christian Lair

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