On Fri, 13 Oct 1995, Gordon W. Ross wrote:

> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 18:36:02 EDT
> From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
> To: port-sun3@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: boot tape testers?
> 
> I have some things in place that should allow booting NetBSD/sun3
> from tape.  However, I'm not sure it all works correctly yet.
> In particular, I've NEVER tested the install.sh script, so
> for now I'd recommend installing things by hand.
> 
> The FTP server is unavailable at the moment, so I'm putting
> the files on the server where I work, so:
> 
> 	ftp ftp.mc.com
> 	cd /pub/gwr
> 	binary
> 	mget *
> 
> should get you the following:
> 
> -rw-r--r--  1 ftponly       468 Oct 13 22:06 MakeBootTape
> -rw-r--r--  1 ftponly   2751463 Oct 13 22:09 miniroot.fs.gz
> -rw-r--r--  1 ftponly    787258 Oct 13 22:07 netbsd-rd
> -rw-r--r--  1 ftponly      4096 Oct 13 22:06 tapeboot.bin
> 
> The script MakeBootTape will copy these files onto a tape
> (in multiple tape segments) such that the Sun3 can boot it.
> 
> It worked for me on a 3/60, but not a 3/160.  Don't know why.
> 
> The sources for all this should be available tomorrow (Sat.)
> Let me know how it goes...
> 
> Gordon Ross
> 
I just tried this on my 3/50, and it gives me

 Exception 10 at 00004014

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