Path: utzoo!attcan!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Bootable Floppy for 3B2/700
Summary: and what about bootable CTC tapes for the 3B2/{3,4}00?
Keywords: ATT hasnot delivered [ :-) ]
Message-ID: <1989Jul5.002103.17667@eci386.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 89 00:21:03 GMT
References: <328@msa3b.UUCP>
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <328@msa3b.UUCP> kevin@msa3b.UUCP (Kevin P. Kleinfelter) writes:
> 
> Is there any way I can create a "bootable" floppy so that if my hard disks
> crash, I can restore from a backup after replacing the hard drive and booting
> from floppy?

You should be able to do this with 'sysadm', or perhaps mkboot,
though I've always dd'd the original, and then mucked with the
files on it.

Now, how to I make a bootable CTC tape?  I've put a filesystem on
a tape, but I can't seem to find a boot programme, nor exactly how
(where) to put it on the tape.  I admit it was quit late, but TFM
didn't help either.  The other options seem to be to reload the 6
essentials, plus the CTC driver, then restore; or build a boot
floppy with a kernel that includes the CTC driver.
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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