Date: Wed, 21 Jun 95 17:11:13 EDT From: jeffa@sybase.com (Jeff Anuszczyk) To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions about creating a tape install for FreeBSD V2.0.5 using INSTALL guide Message-ID: <9506212111.AA19745@red_oak.sybgate.sybase.com>
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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 ----- Begin Included Message ----- >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 ----- End Included Message -----
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