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- From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
- Subject: Re: (Q) How to copy boot tapes?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.161834.6508@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com>
- Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
- References: <1992Jul28.222658.29564@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Jul30.045314.7512@cancer.DIALix.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:18:34 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.045314.7512@cancer.DIALix.oz.au> wvs@cancer.DIALix.oz.au writes:
- >
- >The reason for using tputil is because of the blocking SUN use when
- >creating the tapes.
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- I have successfully copied 1/2" reel media for 4.1.1 to 1/4" 60mb format.
- I just dd'd each tapefile to disk, then dd'd them back out to the new
- tape. I think I used blocksize 126 for the 1/4" tape. I've used the
- resulting 1/4" tapes to install several systems.
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