Subject: Re: procedure for bootstrapping hp300 machines
To: Mike Hibler <mike@cs.utah.edu>
From: Herb Peyerl <Herb.Peyerl@sidney.novatel.ca>
List: port-hp300
Date: 06/16/1994 15:06:03
: You shouldn't need an HP-IB disk (unless you just have a craving for a
: small, slow, expensive disk!).  Don't worry about disk geometries when

I just worry about being sure that it's going to work right before I put
it up for FTP.  And especially before any possibility of such being toasted
onto a CDROM (should anyone decide to do this).

: Is this the stuff that Mark Davies did?  He had diskless 4.4 machines 
: running but he was using some Mt Xinu code (the standalone ethernet
: driver, maybe some other stuff).  He was going to rewrite that.  Now that
: Mt Xinu is gone, I wonder what the legal standing of their code is?

This is stuff that was sent to me by John Brezak which I'd assumed he'd 
written from scratch since none of it had any copyright's on it... Maybe
he'll enlighten us a little further.

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