From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 07:06:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA04596 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:06:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shell.monmouth.com (pechter@shell.monmouth.com [205.164.220.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA04586 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:06:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from pechter@localhost) by shell.monmouth.com (8.7.4/8.7.3) id KAA07992; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:02:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter Message-Id: <199608161402.KAA07992@shell.monmouth.com> Subject: Re: File System on a tape To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:02:57 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <199608161241.IAA04574@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Aug 16, 96 08:41:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > > agreed... but there's so many CDROMS (IDE) giving us problems this makes some sense. Bill ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter/Carolyn Pechter | 17 Meredith Drive, Tinton Falls, NJ 07724, 908-389-3592 | pechter@shell.monmouth.com I'll run Win95 on my box when you pry the keyboard from my cold, dead hands. FreeBSD, OS/2, CP/M, RT11, spoken here.