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Hello,

are there any tools avaible to create an emerceny tape for linux like in
HP-UX.

Thanks for your help.

Thomas

Look at Mondo/Mindi at http://www.microwerks.net
and look at BRU/CRU at http://www.tolisgroup.com

Of course, your tape drive and BIOS must support booting from
tape in the first place.

G'luck....

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On Wed, 11 Sep 2002 20:25:32 +0200, Thomas staggered into the Black Sun
and said:

Quote:> are there any tools avaible to create an emerceny tape for linux like in
> HP-UX.

Booting is totally dependent on the architecture of the machine and a
few other factors besides.  The first thing you need to do is to say
which architecture you're talking about--x86, PPC, Alpha, MIPS, PA-RISC,
Sparc, something else?

I have never heard of an x86 that can boot from a tape drive.  Tapes are
character devices, the x86 BIOS is small and stupid and can't really
comprehend anything but a floppy or an IDE disk.  x86 machines typically
boot from CD-ROM using the El Torito floppy emulation hack, and SCSI
cards all have special firmware that provides the BIOS with enough
real-mode access to the SCSI drive to get a bootloader and kernel image
read in.

Can your machine boot from CD-ROM?  That's probably a better alternative
since making a bootable CD-ROM is reasonably easy, and most things can
boot from a CD-ROM.  You should also post this message in a NG devoted
to Linux on your particular architecture, like comp.os.linux.alpha .

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