Bootable copies of Ultrix dist tapes. How?
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alan at shodha.enet.dec.com
Thu Dec 13 11:47:21 AEST 1990
In article <1990Dec12.184633.29053 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, burrsie at uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Burr Nelson) writes:
>
> Sorry if this has already been covered before, but does
> anyone know the trick to creating a bootable duplicate of a
> TK50 Ultrix distribution tape?
VAX or RISC? (Don't bother answering, it only matters
a little...)
Except for the first two files on an ULTRIX distribution
all the files have a 10 KB block size. The 3rd file is
a dump(8) format backup of the root file system. The
4th file is a tar(1) archive of the installation control
files. It has a file in it (ULT.image) that has the rest
of the files and their checksums.
The first two files are the boot program(s), with a block
size of 512 bytes. On either the VAX or RISC tape the 2nd
file is empty and can be 10 KB.
>
> Burr
>
> Burr Nelson * 217-333-2435 * burrsie at uxh.cso.uiuc.edu * 128.174.5.55
> U of I Biophysics Dept. * 524 Burrill Hall * 407 S. Goodwin * Urbana, IL 61801
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