At 16:08 17-12-2000 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:

>Thinking about this, I think the answer is two part: I don't think sysinst
>supports tapes.  And two, tapes don't use bootfs.  It isn't useful.

	??!!??

	Ok... now I'm -REALLY- confused. Why, if this is the case, did 1.4.1 and
1.4.2 have tape-bootable filesystems? (boot.fs.gz) Furthermore, why then do
the installation instructions for NetBSD (including 1.5) explicitly
reference a tape installation procedure?

>that they had 1 or 2 512-blocked files, followed by a 512-blocked kernel.
>I don't know if the netbsd boot blocks support booting from tape.

	They certainly seem to, at least as far as getting a basic shell up and
operating. That's how I did the initial build of 1.4.1 on a MicroVAX II.
Someone else was kind enough to write a boot tape (a TK50) for me.


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