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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation
Date: 16 Aug 1995 10:32:08 +0200
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Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote:
>>The only problem i'm aware of is that you wasn't able to have the tape
>>in the drive while the system was booting (you had to put it in
>>later). It's fixed.
>
>I think, it was the other way around: the tape had to be inserted
>into the tape during boot time to make the install programm
>recognize it - but this works in 2.0.5-RELEASE and it works fine
>(using a Wangtek 5150ES SCSI tape here.)
Nope, no tape at boot time, but it must be there at the time when
sysinstall is asking for which medium to use.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)