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From: alan@shodha.enet.dec.com ( Alan's Home for Wayward Notes File.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Bootable copies of Ultrix dist tapes. How?
Summary: Cloning setld(8) tapes.
Message-ID: <2130@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 13 Dec 90 00:47:21 GMT
References: <1990Dec12.184633.29053@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Digital Equipment Corp. - Colorado Springs, CO.
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In article <1990Dec12.184633.29053@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, burrsie@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Burr Nelson) writes:
> 
> Sorry if this has already been covered before, but does
> anyone know the trick to creating a bootable duplicate of a
> TK50 Ultrix distribution tape?

	VAX or RISC?  (Don't bother answering, it only matters
	a little...)

	Except for the first two files on an ULTRIX distribution
	all the files have a 10 KB block size.  The 3rd file is
	a dump(8) format backup of the root file system.  The
	4th file is a tar(1) archive of the installation control	
	files.  It has a file in it (ULT.image) that has the rest
	of the files and their checksums.

	The first two files are the boot program(s), with a block	
	size of 512 bytes.  On either the VAX or RISC tape the 2nd
	file is empty and can be 10 KB.
> 
> Burr
> 
>      Burr Nelson * 217-333-2435 * burrsie@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu * 128.174.5.55
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