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- From: awills@wam.umd.edu (Andrew F. Wills)
- Subject: Re: Boot Tapes on a SPARC
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.041254.13885@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <9301220207.aa13754@gate.demon.co.uk> <1993Jan25.071836.3928@dbha.toppoint.de> <1993Jan26.120135.23688@fwi.uva.nl>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 04:12:54 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.120135.23688@fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) writes:
- >detlev@dbha.toppoint.de (Detlev Habicht) writes:
- >
- >>karl@bagpuss.demon.co.uk (karl) writes:
- >
- >>>Is it possible to make a SunOS boot tape for a Sparc IPC/IPX, so that I can
- >>>reload the OS without requiring a CD? I know that this is no longer supported,
- >>>so I guess my question is does anyone know the format of the boot tapes that
- >>>it would boot from?
- >
- >>>Thanks.
- >
- >>I have the same question for a few weeks here. No one answers. I found only
- >>a special tool to duplicate tapes.
- >
- >It's not just a question of making a tape, you'll need a tape-boot file.
- >Sun no longer supplies us with one. I believe that you will only
- >be able to find such a file for machines supported in SunOS 4.0.3 which
- >is, if I recall correctly, the last SunOS that can be installed from tape.
- >
- >Casper
-
- I just installed 4.1.1 from a tape on a 3/160.
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- Andy
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