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Hi all

Anyone had any luck making installtapes from a Linux box?

I've been trying to create the installtapes for 1.3.2 from my P100 running
a modified Redhat 5.0, with no success whatsoever.

The taper is an Archive something... with a Sun part# 595 something...
hmmm, haven't got it here so i wrote all the numbers down on a piece of
paper. Guess i should have brought the paper... 
It's in a huge (medium-tower size) external-storage box, DB50 SCSI, with a
382Mb hd. It came with the Sun's i recently bought (two 3/80's, a 3/60 and
a 3/50) and i don't know much about it. Bugger all really :)

The kernel probes it and gives it /dev/st0, so that far it seems to be
ok. At first i managed to write and read to a cassette that was in it
(probably formatted?), however with some errors (SCSI error 2,
Input/Output error). Then i did a 'mt -f /dev/st0 erase' and after that,
all i got was a lot of shoeshining and errors.

This whole tape-thing is all new and strange to me, if anyone can help out
with a hint or pointer in the right direction i'd be a happy and somewhat
less frustrated man again.
And for the sake of increased bandwidth and verbosity i'm including a
printout of what the MakeBootTape-script gives (i did bring my floppies:)

see ya!
Martin Klang

  "Reality is only a special case of possibilities"
  -- I. Prigogine

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