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From: heiner@zop.dkrz.de (Heiner Strauss)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation
Date: 21 Aug 1995 13:12:34 GMT
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
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References: <DCqoMK.Byv@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <404stf$jbh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <40f40c$9b9@alster.dkrz.de> <40nfe1$l0q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <DDC4y9.9BI@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
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Keywords: SCSI tape installation
In article <DDC4y9.9BI@theatre.pandora.sax.de>, mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk) writes:
> In article <40nfe1$l0q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
> J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>
> >Heiner Strauss <heiner@zop.dkrz.de> wrote:
> >
> >>The SCSI tape installation doesn't work from FBSD 2.0.5 and higher.
> >>The problem has been reported but no solution is avaliable. Unlucky.
> >
> >Huh?
> >
> >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.)
>
> Bye,
> Martin
For me it still doesn't work in both ways. I tried also a later snap.
The sysinstall is starting too fast and the tape is not ready. When I
try to access the tape over the holographic shell I get a SCSI bus reset.
Unappy about this but now I've got the CDROM.
Heiner