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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: 4.1 PSR A/CD-ROM
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 5 Jun 90 05:01:18 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 197, message 5

I'm sure this will be in the Sun documentation at some point in time but
at the moment it's not clear from the doc that booting a PSR-A machine
(490 etc) fails from the CD-ROM.  Methinks the boot doesn't get installed
correctly. I've heard a rumor that after mini-unix is installed you should
use the regular boot with the appropriate switches. I just dd'd it onto a
spare partition.

I will say the CD-ROM is a big win, like I'll buy more before I'd ever go
back to tape. Seems a shame the first one out has a bug this big.