Aren/NetBSD
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Add some text to clarify the tape device naming. Closes PR#8794

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
ragge 1999-11-19 20:31:06 +00:00
parent 7479d29f00
commit a3f0dc54de
1 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

8
distrib/notes/vax/xfer
View File

@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.4 1999/05/07 00:15:17 ragge Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: xfer,v 1.5 1999/11/19 20:31:06 ragge Exp $
.
Installation is supported from several media types, including:
.Bl -bullet -compact -offset indent
@ -35,7 +35,11 @@ Under Ultrix this is done like this:
.D1 Ic "dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rmt0h
.D1 Ic "mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewoffl
.Pp
Under NetBSD this is done the same way, except for the tape name:
Under NetBSD this is done the same way, except for the tape name.
The example below corresponds to TMSCP tapes on vaxen, for SCSI tapes
use nrst0 instead. Note that other architectures than vax can have
other names for the tape device, use the correct device name
for your system.
.D1 Ic "gunzip miniroot.gz
.D1 Ic "mt -f /dev/rmt8 rewind
.D1 Ic "dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rmt8