From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 16 07:19:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA05479 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:19:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA05364 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:19:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id HAA11671; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:19:04 -0700 (MST) From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199608161419.HAA11671@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: File System on a tape To: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter) Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 07:19:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: dgy@rtd.com, FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199608161402.KAA07940@shell.monmouth.com> from "Bill/Carolyn Pechter" at Aug 16, 96 10:02:07 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > have a floppy on their system (or perhaps a CDROM drive), but how many > > > have a tape drive? > > Folks, it also is kind of nice for those folks who have access to some > kind of tape drive and no CDROM -- or (more common) an Unsupported > CDROM. > > Imagine if the folks with wierd IDE CD's could cut a tape and install > from that before having to get hacked kernels. I've had to make the > floppy sets at times because of not enough DOS partition space > to put the distribution. If I could dd or tar to tape and install from tape > it would be a great ease of installation issue at times. I *thought* installing from tape *was* supported?? Or, is this broke? > Also, sooner or later we're going to go multiplatform (I hope) and one > day we may need the capability.