Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 09:55:18 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V4 #28 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 16 Sep 91 Volume 4 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: Help with booting from tape Where can I buy DAT drive ? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 9 Sep 1991 23:29:12 UTC From: mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us (Nick Sayer) Subject: Help with booting from tape To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Chris Swanson writes: >Greetings, > I just got a Sun (4/110 if it makes a difference) and 4.1.1 on tape. >I will be booting from tape with an HD that is not even formatted yet. My >problem, as I see it, is that my HD is not in the standard disktab/format.dat >tables. How do I go about booting and formatting the system? I have an idea, >but I am not sure if it would work, or if there is a simpler way. Check the /etc/format.dat file first, the drive you have may be in there but commented out. This is the case with a lot of Maxtor stuff. If it's not there, then you simply need to get the appropriate format.dat entry (A "close" one may not work), "cat>>" it onto the end of the memory-root format.dat file, format, then install miniroot and use suninstall from there. You can't format from miniroot, btw (unless, of course, you're formatting a second drive). Once you have formatted under memory-unix, you should be able to partition even without any default partition in format.dat. Just make sure you'll be happy with the size of the root and swap partitions, then make the rest of the drive 'g' and call 'h' the 'freehog' under SunInstall and let the install process create those two partitions. The drive may not be large enough to support a 'usr' AND an extra partition. The advantage is that you can mount 'usr' read-only and save some fsck time (and gain minute amounts of security). -- Nick Sayer | Official Scapegoat for the | "Thou hast mrapple@quack.sac.ca.us | MC68HC11 Mailing List. | besquirted me, N6QQQ | To subscribe, send mail to | oh leotarded one!" 209-952-5347 (Telebit) | mc68hc11-request@quack.sac.ca.us | -- The Sherrif ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 16 Sep 91 14:51:01 +0900 From: Shin Yoshimura Subject: Where can I buy DAT drive ? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu I will visit to US next month. I'll stay at San Francisco and San Jose (Interop '91). I want to buy a DAT drive for SparcStation-1 at my home. In Japan, it costs about $3500 - $6000. I hear it can be bought at $1500 - $3000 in US. Can anyone tell me where can I buy it near Bay area ? Thank you. Shin Yoshimura The University of Tokyo. ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************