I created a NetBSD 1.6 boot tape last fall on my VAX 4000-500 with=20
no trouble at all.  I made it with OpenVMS 7.0, a CompacTape III, and=20
a TF86 tape drive.  The instructions in the NetBSD/VAX FAQ v1.11 worked
fine for me.  The FAQ mentioned putting the bootfs and miniroot files on
seperate tapes.  I put both files on the same tape and everything worked=20
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Joseph


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, Gregg C Levine wrote:

> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 12:37:34 -0500
> From: Gregg C Levine <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
> To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: RE: Anyone know if tape booting works lately?
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> Hello again from Gregg C Levine
> This is curious. Robert reports, that the tape booting concept does
> not work. This gentleman reports the same thing. Then why are the
> NetBSD/vax maintainers continuing to leave that part within the
> installation documents? When did tape booting work? And when did it
> break? How far back does NetBSD/vax go anyway?
> -------------------
> Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> "The Force will be with you...Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
> "Use the Force, Luke."=A0 Obi-Wan Kenobi
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to General Obi-Wan Kenobi )
> (This company dedicates this E-Mail to Master Yoda )
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: port-vax-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-vax-owner@netbsd.org]
> On Behalf
> > Of Braamse, Joop
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:08 AM
> > To: Robertdkeys@aol.com
> > Cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> > Subject: RE: Anyone know if tape booting works lately?
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> > Robert,
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> > I tested tape boot some time ago. I used 1.5.x and 1.6, no luck.
> > Eventually, I used "dd" to make a bootable image on a disk, and that
> worked fine.
> > 1.6 also has a boot file problem so I used 1.5.3
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> > Joop
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robertdkeys@aol.com [mailto:Robertdkeys@aol.com]
> > Sent: zaterdag 1 februari 2003 2:51
> > To: port-vax@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Anyone know if tape booting works lately?
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> > Has anyone actually tape booted VAXen lately, and if so, with what
> > particular files?  I am curious if tape booting still works.
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> > Thanks
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> > Bob Keys
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