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- Sun Jun 23 16:31:26 PDT 1985
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- The scripts needed to build a boot tape for 4.2 and beyond
- live here. Before trying anything look at the scripts
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- buildmini
- get
- maketape
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- To construct a tape suitable for bootstrapping a system
- first find a spare file system for a ``mini root'' and
- patch the buildmini shell script to reflect its location.
- Second, decide where your ``distribution'' source is located
- and patch the get and maketape scripts. Then do the following:
- % buildmini
- % maketape [ 6250 | 1600 [ tapename [ remotetapemachine ] ] ]
- This builds a distribution on one tape at 6250bpi, two tapes at 1600bpi.
- The tape drive may be on a remote machine if the last optional arg is given.
- For 1600bpi, be sure and check whether /usr/src will fit on one tape.
- The current distribution is about 80+ megabytes and easily fits on one tape
- at 6250bpi with a blocking factor of 20.
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