Information Media

Many computers take a lot of time to boot (or start ).This is due to many reasons.

Some slight changes can do wonders for your system:

1. Press start->run then type msconfig and press enter.

Go to the startup tab. Here you will see a list of startup items. These are all the programs that automatically start when you boot your PC. It is these that slow down the boot up process.

                                 So uncheck all the unwanted items like ms-office, messengers other utilities that u may not need at startup). Don't uncheck your antivirus software.

Configuring mksysb image on system backup tapes

Use the mksysb command to ensure that the boot image, BOS Installation/Maintenance image, and the table of contents image are created with a tape block_size value of 512.

Bootable mksysb tapes comprise the following images:

·         Boot image

·         BOS Installation/Maintenance image

·         Table of contents image

·         System backup image

The system backup image is the actual backup of the files in the rootvg in all JFS-mounted file systems.

The boot image, BOS Installation/Maintenance image, and the table of contents image must be created with a tape block_size value of 512. The mksysb command ensures that the block size is 512 when these images are created. There are no restrictions on the block size used for the fourth (system backup image) on the tape. The block size of the system, before it was temporarily set to 512, is used for the fourth image on the tape.