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From: seanf@sco.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Minix and the PC532
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Date: 24 Sep 90 07:02:31 GMT
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>Once your drive is formatted, you place a primative mini-root filesystem
>on the hard drive, by copying the software over a serial link to the
>pc532's ram. The monitor has built-in download capability. Once the
>miniroot is in RAM, you write it to the SCSI device with the monitor.
>
>The same steps are taken with the kernel, and the rest of the files on
>the filesystem.
>
>You then do a;
>
>	read 0 2000 80
>	run 2000
>
>and get a login: prompt. Nothing to it. Bruce has made the installation
>pretty flawless (tell that to Karl Swartz at 2 am :-). Full instructions
>are included in an installation guide on the floppies.

Are there any plans to make a tape distribution?  I have a SCSI tape drive,
which I purchased partially because of the pc532 (and partially because I
have a '386 that wants to be backed up 8-)), and I imagine it shouldn't be
too difficult to be able to do all of the above from a tape, no?

Sean.