SUMMARY: Bootable tape?

From: Rick Greene <GREENER_at_labs.wyeth.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 15:01:36 -0500

Thanks to:

George Guethlein
Dr. Tom Blinn
Gary George
Cory Erikson
John Speno
Bryan Lavelle
Randall R. Cable

The answer seems to be that for 4.0b and above, there is a new included utility, btcreate (and its partner btextract) that can be used for creating a bootable tape. Cautionary notes were given that not all hardware/firmware combinations will support this, nor are all tape drives supported.

In addition, Cory mentioned his site is making their own custom bootable CD-ROM, but as I don't have access to a CD-Recorder, have to stick with tape.

I'll have to do a bit of reading up on btcreate, and investigation in to what my system will allow, so this is all the summary I have.

Rick Greene
Senior Engineer
Mid-Range Systems Support
Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories
280 King of Prussia Road
Radnor PA 19087
phone: 610-902-7560
fax #: 610-964-3947
Received on Wed Dec 16 1998 - 20:06:16 NZDT

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