Copying RX50 boot floppies
Robert Gill
gill at mars.m2c.org
Tue Apr 9 00:06:37 AEST 1991
Hi All:
The place that employees me (and let's me post) belongs to a program of
Digital's called ESL. Under this program we receive a lot of DEC's software
at a reduced cost. For this "priviledge" we pay a price, we can only receive
the software on TK50s.
Well, now it's time to upgrade our 2 VAX 8530s to Ultrix 4.1 and low and
behold we can't get boot floppies under this program because, you guessed it,
they aren't TK50s. My field service rep has "borrowed" a set of floppies for
us to copy. I know that the RX50 drives on the PRO350 console are accessed
through /dev/rcsX{a,c}. I can also access the floppies via dd and put the
data on disk.
My question is: Does anyone have any experience with this? What flags, if any,
should I use (such as block size)? Advice... (other than getting new systems
that don't require boot floppies)
My need is kind of immediate (isn't it always :-) since my field service rep
only has the floppies for a couple of days. E-mail or posting is fine. Either
way I will summarize.
Mucho thanks,
Bob
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