Darn. And the label said it was a Tahoe distribution :-). You'll also remember that I'm the one who found the V6 RL02 packs at UBC which, despite all indications, are actually some sort of V7 system that has all the internal labels reading "V6"! That would explain why I couldn't boot it, yep. In any event, I am now very happy to now have a bootable copy of 4.3-Reno. (Installing as I type, AAMAF.) We all know now that Michael's on a crusade for 4.3-Tahoe, so would it be completely unreasonable to build 4.3-Tahoe from sources under 4.3-Reno? It's the most reasonable approach I can think of at the moment. And what stands in the way of reading around the bad blocks on Kirk McKusick's 43tahoe_cci distribution? Even though I know that Rick Copeland doesn't have all the fancy tape recovery equipment I have in my lab, is there some fundamental problem preventing the use of "mt fsr" commands to skip the bad block(s) and recover the rest of the "src" and "usr" tree? -- Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com Trailing Edge Technology WWW: http://www.trailing-edge.com/ 7328 Bradley Blvd Voice: 301-767-5917 Bethesda, MD, USA 20817 Fax: 301-767-5927 Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA14239 for pups-liszt; Sun, 22 Nov 1998 15:57:23 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au) X-Authentication-Warning: minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au: major set sender to owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.oz.au using -f