From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
> On another note, there was to be some work done on the bootloader to
> support booting from ustar images right?  This would allow people to split
> a miniroot image across multiple RX50 disks yes?  I don't think we could
> hope to fit even a stripped down kernel with supporting utils on a single
> 400K RX50 floppy.

Now that would be cool! I really wouldn't mind even if the install would
take a boatload of disks, I'd just like to get it installed. I currently
have
VMS 5.5. If I were to find a 9-track tape drive for the 8350 would it
be possible to install from that ? (I have one on my netbsd/hp300)

>
> But given ustar as a way to boot a miniroot RAM disk kernel from multiple
> RX50s, we should be able to setup a PPP link over one of the available
> serial ports.

That would probably be faster than, let's see (base+comp+syssrc)/400k=
too many disks.

>
> Even given DEBNA support, do the 8200 series systems even support MOP
> booting?

Don't know about that, my docs are at home.
Waiting eagerly for DEBNA support (and already brewing the virtual beer),

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Jarkko Teppo
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Estlander &Rönnlund Financial Products