[parisc-linux] Install from DDS Tape

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Sat, 2004-02-21 03:19:17 +0200, Razvan Popescu <tomcatsniper at go.ro>
wrote in message <5818350927.20040221031917 at go.ro>:
> Hi,
>   I have an old HP 9000 model 715 at my work with HP-UX 10.2 and
>   I want to install Debian 3.0 for PA-RISC on it but it has ONLY
>   a dds tape drive (no cdrom, no floppy). My question is: Can I
>   install from tape? How can I put the Debian ISO file on a dds
>   and boot/install from that?

Booting off a tape should work (most probably with the lifimages), but
you'd also try booting off the network. This is what I prefer - if
you've set up the daemons once, you can boot off all machines with
that :)

MfG, JBG

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