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- From: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe)
- Subject: Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233207.250@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Keywords: mtools floppy personal decstation
- Sender: sharpe@nmesis (Richard Sharpe)
- Reply-To: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1993Jan26.180409.5152@eng.ufl.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32:07 GMT
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- > Hello. We've recently installed two Personal DECstation 25s on our
- >network. Our biggest problem was that doconfig didn't work, and they didn't
- >give us enough information to gen a kernel that recognized the keyboard or
- >mouse (I guess DEC considers these memory wasting features).
- >
- > Anyway, the systems are up, but nothing wants to recognize the
- >floppy drive. The devs are gens, but my guess is the kernel doesn't have
- >the support features in it.
-
- This is interesting, because I have recently (Nov 92) re-installed about 5
- personal DECstations (mixture of /25s and /33s) under ULTRIX 4.3, and they all
- worked and MTools worked without any problems.
-
- You have to use /dev/rfd0c on the personal DECstations, but I set MTools up
- to use /dev/floppy and then link /dev/floppy to the appropriate thing on each
- WS, as I like to place MTools binaries in /usr/local/bin and then NFS mount it
- on lots of clients.
-
- Regards
- --------
- Richard Sharpe, sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com, Ph: 61-8-235-7237, FAX: ...-7299
- Digital Equipment Corporation, 139 Frome St, Adelaide 5001, South Australia, OZ
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- * other ways! *
- All opinions are those of the author, not of Digital Equipment!
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