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From: jleppek@suw2k.ess.harris.com (James Leppek)
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To: bob@luke.pmr.com
Subject: Re: Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape
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I think they changed the block size of the release files from 
the normal 20 to 10 blocks. So you need to create a new
tar file with block size at 10 (for gnu tar -b 10 )

I did this and still could never get a tape install to
work because then it said "tape not found" or some such. 
I tried this with the tape in the tape drive and out upon
power up and no luck :-(

I ended up doing a minimal PPP boot ( which was really nice :-) )
and then getting the rest from tape after the minimal system was 
loaded.
The tape drive works fine once the system is up so its
just an install problem.

Jim Leppek

> From owner-freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com Wed Jul 26 10:32:44 1995
> Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 10:27:56 -0400
> From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
> To: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com (freebsd-questions)
> Subject: Prob installing 2.0.5-950622-SNAP from 8mm tape
> Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org
> 
> <<On Tue, 25 Jul 1995 21:35:45 -0500 (CDT), Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> said:
> 
> > I have encountered a problem trying to install a system with the
> > 2.0.5-0622-SNAP from an Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive (connected to
> > a BusLogic BT-747S SCSI controller).  It gets to the point where
> > it is trying to extract data from the tape and then fails with the
> > message:
> 
> > st0: 10240-byte record too big
> 
> 8mm tapes can be written with either fixed or variable block size; it
> seems likely to me that the driver is using the wrong one for your
> tape.  The SCSI mavens should probably have more to say about this.
> 
> -GAWollman
> 
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