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From: rzh@lll-lcc.UUCP (Roger Hanscom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation 3100
Keywords: mumble, mumble, grumble
Message-ID: <2640@lll-lcc.UUCP>
Date: 25 Oct 89 18:17:00 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, LCC, Livermore Ca
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Hi all --
   I've been given a 3100 to bring up --- only catch is it has a
single, WREN IV drive attached to it.  Off course, all the DEC
installation software doesn't want to deal with the 3rd party drive.
I've gotten around most of this ^%$%^* garbage, but now when I boot
I go into the init question and answer stuff.  It tries to load 
rz0g (/usr) from the distribution tape (it doesn't really need to,
I dumped/restored a /usr into rz0g already), and complains about
the disk again (/etc/disktab was modified for the WREN IV).  Is there
another blinkin' table to modify??  How do I get around this??
   While I'm here, I'm using ns=49, nt=9, and nc=1412 for the WREN IV.
Is that right??
   Pardon me, but I must say that I'm really pissed off at DEC for
all of this crap.  They're wasting a *bunch* of my time on mickey
mouse crap and marketing tactics that stink.  If they really want to
sell competitively priced workstations, they'd better clean up their
act.  We won't be buying any more of these things until they become
*open* systems.

                roger           rzh@lll-lcc.llnl.gov