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From: jhma@ukc.ac.uk (James Aldridge)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: SR10 Installation
Keywords: Rumours...
Message-ID: <1745@harrier.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 7 Jul 89 13:53:22 GMT
References: <701@idacom.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhma@ukc.ac.uk (James Aldridge)
Organization: Solid State Logic, Begbroke, Oxford, OX5 1RU, UK
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In article <701@idacom.UUCP> danny@idacom.UUCP (Danny Wilson) writes:
>Our [new] sys_admin has been saying that it is impossible to install
>SR10 (with Mentor SW)
>
>We have:
>	a bunch of DN3000's with NO tapes, 
>	a DSP90 with attached
>		300 Meg drive
>		Danford cartridge tape
>		9 track tape
>
The problem as I understand it is as follows:
	SR10 requires the disk to be INVOLed which means booting diskless off
removable media.
	Apollos will only boot of floppy or cartridge (DNxxxx only) and not
off 1/2 inch Mag tape.

>Is it true that we cannot load SR10 with this configuration?
>Has anyone out there done it?
In this country, Mentor are offering to come on site with an SR10 node and do
the initial installation from that.  Once ONE node in the network is at SR10, 
the others can be booted across the network from that node.  Subsequent 
installations can then be done from mag tape or cartridge from your DSP.

>
>-- 
>Danny Wilson

James Aldridge



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