[rescue] Re: SunOS 4.0.3 tape images

[Jochen Kunz]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 03:46:01PM -0500, Steve Sandau wrote:

> dd on Linux doesn't take the "files=" parameter. Thought I needed
> that, so I put the drive on a BSD box where dd understands files=.
Use the non-rewind on close device and do several dd in sequence 
to get all files from a tape. (somthing like /dec/nrst0)

> I made images of the tapes. The size seemed reasonable. But I couldn't
> make a bootable tape out of the images.
For boot tapes the record size is often importand. Note that you can 
not specify the record size with the bs= parameter of dd. You have
to use a special tape writing programm to do this. I use maketape
from the 2.11BSD distribution that can be found in the PUPS archive:
http://www.pups.org/ 
And somewhere in the archive is a copytape...
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         Jochen

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