building a boot tape -- summary

From: J Eric Townsend (JET@uh.edu)
Date: Tue Sep 17 1991 - 22:31:22 CDT


A recap of my problem: I had a sun 4/260 w/ scsi tape, no external
scsi bus and a crashed disk. I also have a bunch of sparcs w/ tape drives
and cd-rom. I didn't have a sun4 boot tape. The question was
"how do I build a sun4 boot tape"?

The answer seems to be "you can't, unless you're sun." I played
with a number of things on the cd rom, and even started to set up
one of my sparcs as a boot server before I threw in the towel and
borrowed a sun4 boot tape from a nameless friend.. :-)

Thanks to the following for help:
From: Ken Rossman <ken@shibuya.cc.columbia.edu>
From: tonytran@leland.stanford.edu
From: mlg@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu (Meg Grice)
From: guttman@mashie.ece.jhu.edu (Mike Guttman)
From: phil@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Phil Ritzenthaler)
From: johbro@squid1.Auto-trol.COM (John R. Brown)
From: proton!baumann@ucrmath.ucr.edu (Michael Baumann)
From: Ken Rossman <ken@shibuya.cc.columbia.edu>
From: milt@pe-nelson.com (Milt Ratcliff)
From: tester@cmcl2.NYU.EDU (thx1138@nyu.edu)

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