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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!gatech!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!ieunet!news.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FBSD 2.0R - Tape install prob & 1.x/2.0 UFS compatibility Date: 02 Dec 1994 20:28:48 GMT Organization: Jordan Hubbard Lines: 41 Message-ID: <JKH.94Dec2202848@whisker.hubbard.ie> References: <3bmg9p$clp@Mars.mcs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: whisker.hubbard.ie In-reply-to: mikebo@MCS.COM's message of 2 Dec 1994 00:53:45 -0600 In article <3bmg9p$clp@Mars.mcs.com> mikebo@MCS.COM (Michael Borowiec) writes: The FreeBSD 2.0 SCSI tape load is not working on my system. I am currently running FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 on the system in question, so I don't believe my setup is causing the failure. Fixed in the December 2nd and 3rd floppies (but try the December 3rd ones, since they fix some other networking problems). ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.0-RELEASE/floppies/newer/... Some additional points... Nowhere in the docs or install program does it describe the load tape FORMAT required by 2.0. I ASSUMED it was the same as 1.1.5.1, so I created a TAR tape with ALL the tarballs on it (bindist, compat1x_tgz, dict, games, manpages, etc.). This is described now in the new release notes. Sorry for the omission before! Is this right? If so, it is just dumb luck. A neophyte user would not have had a clue how to build an install tape. If I missed this in the docs, could you tell me where it is? Someone Yes, it's in the release notes on the *new* floppies. the same tape (I want everything on one tape). All I have is RELNOTES which doesn't say squat about the load tape format. That's described there also. AAAAAAAAAARGH!!! Symlinks are broke between versions?! I have to backup, newfs and restore? I've got gigabytes of stuff on 1.1.5.1 partitions! Dare I trust dump/restore, tar or whatever between versions? Only if you used FASTLINKS.. Jordan -- Jordan K. Hubbard FreeBSD core team Clams are your friends