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- On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Joseph Heenan wrote:
-
- > Not recommended for the beginner, anyway, I'd have thought - you'd
- > have to newfs the partition yourself, as the installer doesn't
- > support install from floppies. I'm not sure how much it'd appreciate
-
- It _does_ support install from hard disks though, I think, and you might
- be able to persuade it to treat a SyQuest (or even a Zip if you're
- lucky...) as a hard disk for that purpose.
-
- Being able to install off tape would be handy for some people as well, but
- it can't do that either. Every so often I get asked by people who want to
- install on SPARCs whether I can cut them a 1/4" tape distribution. (!)
-
- p.
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