Ultrix upgrade from file instead of tape

[George Robbins]

In article <1990Sep13.111450 at geology.tn.cornell.edu> eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu writes:
> Is there a way to run 'setld' to install upgrades to Ultrix from a file instead
> of a tape? We have a DECstation 3100 that has no TK-50, but we can read TK-50's
> on our VMS machine and copy the files over. We have done this for other kinds of
> 'tar' files, but I don't see how to do it for the special 'setld' files.
> 
> 				++Eric Fielding

Yes, but you have to prepare the files to look more or less look like the
way that Ultrix is distributed on disk media.  Not a whole lot of fun,
although there is a whole section in the manual set on setld.  Much easier
to "borrow" a TK50 off some other workstation.
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