Subject: Re: Sun 3/110 Boot tape?
To: None <tsmith@mail.orion.org>
From: Scott Ellis <sellis@rohan.sdsu.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 09/18/1996 18:47:02
In "Sun 3/110 Boot tape?", "Travis L. Smith" <tsmith@mail.orion.org> wrote: 
> Hi,
> Does anyone know where I can get a boot & install tape for a
> 3/100 w/o an OS. It would be nice to see if it works by booting Net-BSD,
> before springing for a monitor, docs, etc. At the moment my Amiga is
> connected to tty-a via a null modem cable. I believe QIC-24 will work. But
> when at the extended test menu, entering "st" returns:
> Boot: st(0,0,0)
> st: error:
>       sense key is error is 9
> 
> "sd" will pass w/o errors. Beats me, at the moment I'm an idiot at Unix  
> and suns.
> Tia,

Unless you can find somebody to make you boot tapes, you need SunOS.

The tapes don't have to be made on the Sun3 though, so you can make the
boot
tapes on most any other machine that can write QIC-24 tapes.

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