Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Test
To: Takuya Koumoto <takuya-k@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/17/1997 17:01:11
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, Takuya Koumoto wrote:

> % ls -l floppy-144.gz 
> -rw-r--r--  1 takuya-k  is-student  1198500 Dec 12 08:30 floppy-144.gz
> % gunzip floppy-144.gz
> % ls -l floppy-144
> -rw-r--r--  1 takuya-k  is-student  3741616 Dec 12 08:30 floppy-144
>                                     ^^^^^^^
> % file floppy-144 
> floppy-144: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, Alpha, version 1, stripped

"Oops!"

I should be back in business soon, I hope; I've got a new disk with
an OS on it; now all that remains is to reinstall about a zillion
programs. Then I can find out why my alpha file server isn't booting,
and then look at this.

cjs

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