Brian Hechinger <wonko@entropy.tmok.com> writes:

> ok, took VMS tape 1/2 from work.  tried booting from it:
> 
> >>>boot mua0
> (BOOT/R5:0 MUA0)
> 
>   2..
> -MUA0
> ?43 FILESTRUCT, MUA0
> ?06 HLT INST
>         PC = 00000D75
> Bootstrap failure.
> >>>
> 
> bad tape huh?  i've got a SCSI TK50 here, i don't know if it works
> or not, but what are the chances of getting a CD-ROM of VMS and
> "extracting" boot tapes from it?  my OS choices are NetBSD and
> Solaris, and i may be able to hang it off of a VMS system at work.

You took the wrong tape.  The VMS Stand-alone Backup utility is on the
tape 2/2 - you boot from that, type the BACKUP command, change 1/2
into the tape drive and press enter.

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