16 Jan
2003
16 Jan
'03
6:33 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 06:28:30PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
If you could do something like
(dd if=mtboot sync bs=512 |+ dd if=mtboot sync bs=512 |+ dd if=boot sync bs=512) | dd
of=/dev/whatever obs=512
in order to concatenate the multiple copies of mtboot then all would be well.
I meant an actual bootable system, not the tape image.
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David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
University of Waterloo "Default is the value selected by the composer
Ontario, Canada overridden by your command." - Roland TR-707 Manual
Ahhh--of
course. One would have to do a series of "dd"s in order to
get the padding happening.
Probably not. Repeated "dd"s will not produce the same result. This is the
typical error when not understanding that tapes actually are not a stream
of characters. (And also a good example when the Unix paradigm fails
pretty bad). That's
not a bad idea. Perhaps I should just make a minimal bootable image
using simh or such, dd it to a SCSI disk, and then attach that to my 11/73.
Might be easier than endless futzing with the TK50.
Don't. The moment you copy a tape file to disk, you will loose meta
information unless you use a program specifically designed to preserve
that information.