Subject: Re: procedure for bootstrapping hp300 machines
To: Herb Peyerl <Herb.Peyerl@sidney.novatel.ca>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 06/16/1994 15:15:33
On Thu, 16 Jun 1994 15:06:03 -40962758 (MDT) 
 Herb Peyerl <Herb.Peyerl@sidney.novatel.ca> wrote:

 > : 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).

Put up an image and I'll gladly test it for you.  I've got plenty of hpib 
disks to toast...

 > 
 > : 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.
 > 
 > hpeyerl@novatel.ca                           |  NovAtel Commnications Ltd.
 > hpeyerl@fsa.ca                               | <nothing I say matters anyway>
 >  "A sucking chest wound is nature's way of telling you to slow down."

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