Subject: Re: Trouble booting cdhdtape
To: Stephens, David <stephend@pgocm2.ksc.nasa.gov>
From: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/15/1999 12:22:35
On Fri, Oct 15, 1999 at 09:55:51AM -0400, Stephens, David wrote:
> (...hopefully, this is the correct method of posting to the mailing list!)

Sure.
 
> I'm trying to install on a DEC 3000-400. I've downloaded the cdhdtape image,
> copied it to a hard disk,

Can you be more specific? What commands/OS?

> and use this for a boot command from SRM:
> >>> boot -fi cdhdtape dkb100

Try: 
>>> boot dkb100

The cdhdtape file is supposed to be copied directly to disk raw, without
a filesystem.

> Any help would be much appreciated. I like the idea of a free Unix for this
> old workhorse.

"I heard that."
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