How Bell Distributes Software

[Erik E. Fair]

We have this problem, see.

Bell has decided that dump/restor no longer exist for System V.

We have, for the past two years or so used standalone restor to load
software on disks both in the factory and in the field.  So our
standard software distribution method was to make a root filesystem
with all the trimmings, and take a dump of it. Now, unless we decide to
continue to support dump/restor, we have no decent way of doing a
distribution.

But wait! Doesn't Bell do software distribution? Of course they do!
So netlandians, the $64 question is, how does Bell do it? How do they
suggest that you, with your brand new VAX, with newly formatted disks,
get up a root filesystem and run System V UNIX?

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appreciated.

	Erik E. Fair

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