16 Jan
2003
16 Jan
'03
5:06 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 07:53:02AM -0800, Andru Luvisi wrote:
maketape will pad each of "mtboot",
"mtboot", and "boot" out to an even
length of 512 bytes. The "cat | dd" method will not pad the first two
out.
Ahhh--of course. One would have to do a series of "dd"s in order to
get the padding happening.
I discovered this while trying to create a bootable
tape image for simh.
I needed to emulate the maketape behavior for it to work.
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.
--
David Evans (NeXTMail/MIME OK) dfevans(a)bbcr.uwaterloo.ca
Ph.D. Candidate, Computer/Synth Junkie http://bbcr.uwaterloo.ca/~dfevans/
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