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From: eli@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Elias)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: how not to install SunOS
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Date: 11 Jan 89 09:26:53 GMT
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Original-Date: Tue, 3 Jan 89 11:31:13 EDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 94, message 13 of 13

i recently received a sun 3/60...  i first attempted to install SunOS
without reading any manuals, naturally.  i'm not really a novice at this
stuff...  or so i thought...  

i got some sort of boot error...  so i read the plethora of "read me
first" documents.  one said to be sure that the boot tape was NOT write
protected, if you have a certain kind of tape drive.  so i unprotect the
tape...  boot is successful.

next step -- format the 327M disk.  the instructions for this step
conclude with "tar -cvf defects.whatever".  i thought this would write the
defects file onto the end of the boot tape.  wrong!  bye bye boot tape...
now i know what "tar -c" does...

that's the last time i read the SunOS installation manual...  i should
have known better...  

please keep the condescending email to a minimum, folks!  i thought you
all might get a laugh out of this...  

now i get to see how fast Sun can respond to my request for software
assistance...  this ought to be interesting...  (i'll probably get a
loaner tape from my salesman some day soon.)