4 Aug
2012
4 Aug
'12
12:04 a.m.
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.
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