how not to install SunOS
Steve Elias
eli at ursa-major.spdcc.com
Wed Jan 11 19:26:53 AEST 1989
i recently received a sun 3/60... i first attempted to install SunOS
without reading any manuals, naturally. i'm not really a novice at this
stuff... or so i thought...
i got some sort of boot error... so i read the plethora of "read me
first" documents. one said to be sure that the boot tape was NOT write
protected, if you have a certain kind of tape drive. so i unprotect the
tape... boot is successful.
next step -- format the 327M disk. the instructions for this step
conclude with "tar -cvf defects.whatever". i thought this would write the
defects file onto the end of the boot tape. wrong! bye bye boot tape...
now i know what "tar -c" does...
that's the last time i read the SunOS installation manual... i should
have known better...
please keep the condescending email to a minimum, folks! i thought you
all might get a laugh out of this...
now i get to see how fast Sun can respond to my request for software
assistance... this ought to be interesting... (i'll probably get a
loaner tape from my salesman some day soon.)
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