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From: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell UNIX compatibility question
Message-ID: <55377@bigtex.cactus.org>
Date: 1 Mar 91 04:33:32 GMT
References: <27CAE13D.237A@tct.uucp> <1991Feb27.165732.28273@nstar.rn.com> <1141@applix.com>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.cactus.org (James Van Artsdalen)
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Organization: Institute of Applied Cosmology, Austin TX
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In <1141@applix.com>, scotte@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) wrote:

> The DELL guy I talked to told me about this 30 day thing, but I couldn't
> open the media...

Sigh.  Who did you talk to?  Yes, you get to install it and try it
out.

> Also, DELL only ships on 150Meg tape, right?  Is there a way to get going
> with a SCSI tape drive (i.e., is there a boot floppy kernel with enough
> brains to allow pkgadd from the SCSI tape??)  The DELL guy didn't know,
> and never returned me an answer...

Now I *really* want to know who you talked to.  The boot floppy knows
about the Adaptec AHA-1542B - it should just work.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen          james@bigtex.cactus.org   "Live Free or Die"
Dell Computer Co    9505 Arboretum Blvd Austin TX 78759         512-338-8789