Hi,

> My actual idea (influenced by this discussion :-) is to have a tool 
> which can be loaded by /boot, uses rom-based routines to read the 
> tape and uses Anders Magnussons ra-routines to write to disk. (If I 
> remember correctly, the the ra-routines are also missing write-support 
> so far, but it should be no big deal to add this to rastrategy.)
> I'll try derive such a small tool out of the sources for /boot and 
> out of the pieces of old unfinished fragments during the weekend. 

The problem I see with this is that it will only work for tapes. What I
have (not quite working yet:-) is a little program that copies from memory
to disk, assuming the boot blocks and miniroot are concatenated onto it.
Although I am booting this file in off tk50, it should work once it is
loaded into memory any old way, such as a mop boot over ethernet. (That
requires a mop server on another machine, but..) As soon as I have it working
I'll let you know so you can take a look at it and give it a try.

Anyhow, we should be able to bootstrap off of tk50 soon, rick
ps: Thanks a lot for letting me know I need to use the ra routines to
    write to disk.