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From: mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk)
Subject: Re: 2.0.5 installation
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References: <DCqoMK.Byv@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <404stf$jbh@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> <40f40c$9b9@alster.dkrz.de> <40nfe1$l0q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:39:45 GMT
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In article <40nfe1$l0q@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de>,
J Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> wrote:
>Heiner Strauss <heiner@zop.dkrz.de> wrote:
>
>>The SCSI tape installation doesn't work from FBSD 2.0.5 and higher.
>>The problem has been reported but no solution is avaliable. Unlucky.
>
>Huh?
>
>The only problem i'm aware of is that you wasn't able to have the tape
>in the drive while the system was booting (you had to put it in
>later). It's fixed.
I think, it was the other way around: the tape had to be inserted
into the tape during boot time to make the install programm
recognize it - but this works in 2.0.5-RELEASE and it works fine
(using a Wangtek 5150ES SCSI tape here.)
Bye,
Martin
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