Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -21- How can I boot my machine using a server on the other side of a router? Next Document: -23- Why can't I boot one of the stand-alone programs on a tape or CD? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge See the Sep/Oct 1993 Pipeline and/or ftp://viz.tamu.edu/pub/sgi/software/admin/making-bootable-tape for a detailed description, or just follow Dave Olson <olson@sgi.com>'s summary: Take a look at the distcp(1M) manpage, and do something like tapehost# mount -o ro cdhost:/CDROM /mnt tapehost# distcp /mnt/dist /dev/nrtape Note that 'fx', 'ide', and 'sash' for all machines are in the dist/sa file. 'sa' is an image of the first part of the tape; use 'mkbootape -f sa -l' to see the contents. User Contributions:Top Document: SGI admin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) Previous Document: -21- How can I boot my machine using a server on the other side of a router? Next Document: -23- Why can't I boot one of the stand-alone programs on a tape or CD? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: sgi-faq@viz.tamu.edu (The SGI FAQ group)
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