Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:02:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> To: louie@TransSys.COM (Louis A. Mamakos) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) Subject: Re: File System on a tape Message-ID: <199608161402.KAA07992@shell.monmouth.com> In-Reply-To: <199608161241.IAA04574@whizzo.transsys.com> from "Louis A. Mamakos" at Aug 16, 96 08:41:17 am
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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 > > 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.
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