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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