HP-UX

Cheers,
I have just re-ran mediainit for the umpteenth time. Going to try this lifinit if that fails have a go at the mkrs. If all that fails there is always trusty dd

Many thanks for your help and time.

Start by seing what is on your boot disk:

On a 10.20 I get:
civ:/home/vbe $ lifls -l /dev/dsk/c1t6d0
volume ISL10 data size 7984 directory size 8 96/05/28 04:10:13
filename type start size implement created
===============================================================
ODE -12960 584 848 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
MAPFILE -12277 1432 128 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SYSLIB -12280 1560 353 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
CONFIGDATA -12278 1920 231 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SLMOD -12276 2152 132 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SLDEV -12276 2288 202 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SLDRIVERS -12276 2496 475 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SLSCSI -12276 2976 117 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
MAPPER -12279 3096 233 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
IOTEST -12279 3336 208 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
PERFVER -12279 3544 198 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
PVCU -12801 3744 64 0 01/10/11 16:50:53
SSINFO -12286 3808 2 0 08/06/26 18:01:07
ISL -12800 3816 240 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
AUTO -12289 4056 1 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
HPUX -12928 4064 848 0 96/05/28 04:10:13
LABEL BIN 4912 8 0 07/11/13 10:33:09
civ:/home/vbe $

On a 9.XX you should see at least:
SYSHPUX
SYSDEBUG
SYSBACKUP
SYSTEST

We bought a 1Gb disk in the end and all is well using my original method

Thanks.