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From: heiser@acs.bu.edu (Bill Heiser)
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Subject: Installing from SCSI tape
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Date: 8 Jan 93 04:16:00 GMT
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I'm trying to install the distbin (for starters) from a 1/4" SCSI
tape on a 486/33 with AMI bios, Opti chipset, 16mb ram, Maxtor 8760S
disk, and CDC Wren IV 307mb disk.  I got the base installation done
from a floppy into a 300mb partition.  When I try to access the
Archive 2150S tape unit to extract the files, I get an "error 9"
from cpio.  The tape is loaded, and the drive worked just a few
hours ago (on the same system) when it was running Esix (system V r3).

The scsi drive is id 4, the boot disk is 0, and the cdc disk is 1.
During the boot, there is an error trying to read the disk label
from the cdc drive (it is formatted for dos).

Is this reminiscent of any known problems?  BTW, this is 0.1 I'm 
using.

Thanks,
Bill

-- 
Bill Heiser
heiser@bu.acs.edu, heiser@world.std.com