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From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD tape install how?
Date: 30 Nov 1994 22:33:22 GMT
Organization: Jordan Hubbard
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In-reply-to: jgomezr@neptune.uucp's message of 30 Nov 1994 13:44:34 GMT
In article <3bhvk2$68p@nic-nac.CSU.net> jgomezr@neptune.uucp (JL Gomez) writes:
Does FreeBSD-2.0R support tape installation?
If so, where I can get the docs?
Thanks.
RELEASE NOTES
FreeBSD
Release 2.0
... [ much text deleted - see RELNOTES.FreeBSD for the full text ] ...
3. QIC/SCSI Tape Installation.
Installing from tape is probably the easiest method, short of an
on-line install using ftp or installing from a CDROM. The installation
program expects the files to be simply tar'red onto the tape, so after
getting all of the files for distribution you're interested in, simply
tar them onto the tape with something like:
cd <where the *.?? files are>
tar cvf /dev/rwt0 (or /dev/rst0) .
from a directory with just the distribution files in it. Make sure
that you remember to put CKSUMS, do_cksum.sh, and extract.sh files
in this directory as well!
--
Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends