Slightly OT: Help? Apple CD 300 and VAX 4000 VLC

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Wed Jun 27 20:05:01 2001

Hans H?bner skrev:

>If you have a spare external SCSI harddisk, you can make a blockwise copy of
>the CD to the disk (using dd under unix) and boot from that. Hard disks
>(almost always) have a block size of 512 bytes and VMS installs just fine
>from a hard drive with the image of a VMS installation CD on it.

Ooh, that reminds me of my TK50 troubles (Getting Ultrix off TK50s and onto a
DECstation with only a VAX with a TK50 drive and NetBSD). Would a dd from such
a cartridge onto a HD work? I'm generally ignorant about TK50s and how they
work. They're bootable tapes, aren't they?

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