On Wed, 21 Feb 1996 23:10:18 -0800 
 Andrew Carey <careya@PEAK.ORG> wrote:

 > I was under the impression that tape booting didn't work. Does it
 > work?

That's just it ... no one's tried it :-)

Seriously, the NFS part of SYS_INST would still be necessary (still need 
an NFS server, etc.), but at least this gets rid of the rbootd dependency 
for getting set up...

One of these days I might get Gordon't "tapefs" ported...

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