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From: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk)
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Subject: Questions about creating a tape install for FreeBSD V2.0.5 using INSTALL guide
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I'm reposting this since I never got a copy of it via majordomo so I
suspect it never made it to the list (I verified that I am on the questions
mailing list).

Any help would be very much appreciated.

- Jeff
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>From jeffa Tue Jun 20 12:25:48 1995
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 95 12:25:43 EDT
From: jeffa (Jeff Anuszczyk)
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Questions about creating a tape install for FreeBSD V2.0.5 using INSTALL guide
Cc: jeffa

Hi All,
   I've been following the install guide for V2.0.5-RELEASE and trying to
create a tape installation.  Basically, I downloaded all of the tree to a
machine at work, recreating an exact duplicate.  I then issued a:

	tar cvf /dev/rst4 bin floppies ...

on a SunOS 4.1.3 Sparc5 workstation using a 4mm DAT tape.  I took the tape
home and tried to install it on my home system.  This system is:

	P100 (ASUS PCI/I-P54TP4 motherboard)
	40MB memory
	ASUS-SC200 PCI Scsi card, 
		DEC DSP3107L 1.05GB hard disk
		Archive Python 4mm Date Tape
	#9GXE64Pro Graphics

The symptoms are when I select load from tape it says to install the tape
in the SCSI tape drive (which it already has loaded).  I press return and
the drive blinks then comes up with an error message saying it can't load
error status '1'.  Switching to ALT-F2 shows the message:

	st0: block size 10240 bytes too large for users buffer

Hmmm.  Did I create the tar tape incorrectly.  The Install guide is a
bit ambiguous on exactly how things should be done.  I think I did it
correctly, but the error indicates otherwise.  Since this machine currently
has an IDE ATAPI CD-ROM I, unfortunately, can't use a CD as installation.

Any help here would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
  - Jeff


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