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From: osm@ox.com (Owen Scott Medd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.ultrix
Subject: Booting a DECsystem 5000
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.183304.14449@ox.com>
Date: 26 Sep 90 18:33:04 GMT
Organization: Ocwen Trading, Inc.
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Well, we have a nice shiny DECsystem 5000 in for evaluation.  It's a brand
new machine, so I said "sure, we'll load Ultrix ourselves".

After hooking up the console (gee, why did they hide the instructions for
doing that off in some dinky little side manual instead of in the main
instructions?), I plunked my Ultrix 4.0 TK50 in the drive and did a
"boot -f tz(0,5)".  Hmmm, what's this error message?

?STX: boot [many options, none of them -f]

But my 4.0 docs *and* the DEC*station* 5000 documentation say to boot this
way!

The system is only here till tomorrow afternoon.

Help!