RISC/OS, IRIX

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Mon Feb 11 14:43:09 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Wright [mailto:dtwright_at_uiuc.edu]

> Just out of curiosity, does this indicate that the tapes I
> gave you actually
> work? ;-)

Indeed. :) Some better than others. I was going to start out
by installing a relatively early version but couldn't get that
particular version to boot. I've taken that to mean that either
the version is too old for the M/120, or that I'm booting it
improperly.

At any rate, I've tried a good three sets of system tapes, all of
which seem to work. (Now to get those other computers running...)

That said, I plan to back the things up onto images sometime soon,
and eventually to try booting one of the M/120s off of a DAT with
the image copied onto it, and possibly a CD-ROM with a dump of the
newly installed system disk. (That would be amusing if it will
work...)

I hear from a friend that I may be able to get an external SCSI
qic1000(?) soon which would read those tapes without making it
necessary to use the MIPS machine for it. I may take that option,
since the CD writer is internal, in a different machine.

Chris



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