-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright@uiuc.edu]
Just out of curiosity, does this indicate that the
tapes I
gave you actually
work? ;-)
Indeed. :) Some better than others. I was going to start out
by installing a relatively early version but couldn't get that
particular version to boot. I've taken that to mean that either
the version is too old for the M/120, or that I'm booting it
improperly.
At any rate, I've tried a good three sets of system tapes, all of
which seem to work. (Now to get those other computers running...)
That said, I plan to back the things up onto images sometime soon,
and eventually to try booting one of the M/120s off of a DAT with
the image copied onto it, and possibly a CD-ROM with a dump of the
newly installed system disk. (That would be amusing if it will
work...)
I hear from a friend that I may be able to get an external SCSI
qic1000(?) soon which would read those tapes without making it
necessary to use the MIPS machine for it. I may take that option,
since the CD writer is internal, in a different machine.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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