Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:41:17 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608161241.IAA04574@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:05:23 EDT." <199608161205.IAA01360@shell.monmouth.com> References: <199608161205.IAA01360@shell.monmouth.com>
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> 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
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