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From: veit@borneo.gmd.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: Re: A case for QIC-80
Message-ID: <1993Oct7.081244.20051@gmd.de>
Keywords: QIC-80
Sender: veit@borneo (Holger Veit)
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Organization: GMD - German National Research Center for Computer Science
References: <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1993 08:12:44 GMT
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In article <kaxiras.749938489@cs.wisc.edu>, kaxiras@falcons.cs.wisc.edu (Stefanos Kaxiras) writes:
|>
[...]
|> Just write up something that can be used to install BSD -and other
|> software -from QIC-80 minicatridges.
|> Instead of using the floppy drive for the installation use the tape
|> drive connected to the floppy drive controller !
|>
|> Even if the tape drive behaves exactly like the floppy drive it's pretty
|> useful!
|>
|> Later on we can tackle the problem of doing more with the QIC-80 drives.
|>
|> I believe that many people woule be happy to be able to install
|> FreeBSD from QIC-80 tapes. This would lead to a wider acceptance of FreeBSD.
|>
|> Thanks for reading,
|> Stefanos.
Perhaps you could try/adapt "ftape". Of course at least a boot disk
(like with CDROM install) would be still necessary.
ftape-1.02.tar.Z is frequently found in linux archives.
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