3 Aug
2012
3 Aug
'12
9:12 p.m.
On 08/04/2012 12:04 AM, Cameron Kaiser wrote:
I have the tar source with an rmt lib in it. I guess I could implement a
new /etc/rmt and just make it read from .tar files.
Ok. Well, I haven't used /etc/rmt in probably twenty years, but I
seem to recall that you can point it at different devices. If you can,
try pointing it directly at a tar file. The only problem will be the -1
return values from any ioctl() calls made by rmt.
That should be easy enough to hack.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Since I'm getting more into early 90s workstations
(the workstations of
my undergraduate years), I'm finding a need to emulate a network tape device
for installs and restores. It seems like there should be such a tool already
that can mimic /dev/nrmt (TMSCP?). Is there? Some cursory Googling didn't
turn up anything obvious, unless I'm looking in the wrong place.
You could just get the source to rmt. It's ridiculously simple. However, /dev/nrmt has nothing at all to do
with networking. It's the
raw (byte-oriented) tape device, and the 'n' means it won't rewind the
tape when the file descriptor is closed.
Yes. What I meant was, when the Solbourne tries to install over the network,
it's looking for /dev/nrmt on that system.