On Saturday 23 February 2002 02.58, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:

I have a running server, which I do not want to have much interrupt.

I have therefore installed a new server, but with another SCSI card and Ethernet card. Before swapping (actually adding) this new harddisk to the real server, I changed all the YaST parameters according to the production machine and made the mk_initrd

The old INITRD_MODULES have been: ncr53c8xx reiserfs

For the new one I added aic7xxx_old tulip

to

ncr53c8xx reiserfs aic7xxx_old tulip

REBOOT!

It starts up with the screens and it show me all things it want to do, but than it tells me to uncompress with hours full of dots.

Are you talking about this? RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 Uncompressing............................. There is probably something wrong with the ramdisk. Did you run lilo after you created the new ramdisk? But more importantly, you say "before swapping (actually adding)". Could you expand on this? If what you want to do is add a harddrive why are you making it bootable? You could just bring down the production system, insert the harddisk unformatted, and bring the system up again and handle the new disk while the production system goes about its business. //Anders