Re: Booting a 3/60

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From: Robert C. Welsh
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 1995 00:00

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>In <3msigf$cvv@news3.digex.net> wkearney@access3.digex.net (Bill Kearney) writes:

>>It's a good thing I bought this 3/60 of mine cheap.  I need the extra 
>>cash to pay for the booze I end up drinking because of the suffering it's 
>>causing me.

>Not good. 8-)

>>Sometimes it boots, sometimes not.  Mainly I keep getting an exception 2c 
>>at 4000E when I try to get it to boot from a Sun 4.4.1 boot tape.  I did 
>>boot this tape once and installed a generic system.  Now it wants nothing 
>>to do with the tape any longer.  I've tried different tapes and get the 
>>same errors MOST of the time.  Sometimes I get a Bus Error, I turn the 
>>whole mess off and reboot and I'm back to the exceptions.

Don't forget to clean the tape drive heads. A machine this "old" has
probably seen quite a few tapes through it in it's lifetime.

Robert Welsh
welsh@nosc.mil

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From: welsh@nosc.mil (Robert C. Welsh)
Subject: Re: Booting a 3/60
Date: 1995/04/27
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