From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 05:41:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA28979 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 05:41:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id FAA28971 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 05:41:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA04574; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:41:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199608161241.IAA04574@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whizzo.transsys.com: Host localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: File System on a tape References: <199608161205.IAA01360@shell.monmouth.com> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:05:23 EDT." <199608161205.IAA01360@shell.monmouth.com> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:41:17 -0400 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > We could sure use something like this. Some kind of program would be needed > to boot the tape, though. A modified FreeBSD program loader that would load > from tape... Could something like this be done under dos for recovery and > installation? While it's an interesting novelty, how is this better than booting/loading something off a floppy? Pretty much everyone will have a floppy on their system (or perhaps a CDROM drive), but how many have a tape drive? I think that a floppy disk bootstrap for a "full-feature" read-only CDROM filesystem would be considerably more useful. Though not quite as good a hack, I'll grant you. louie