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Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation?

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From: Richard Sharpe
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32
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>	Hello.  We've recently installed two Personal DECstation 25s on our
>network.  Our biggest problem was that doconfig didn't work, and they didn't
>give us enough information to gen a kernel that recognized the keyboard or
>mouse (I guess DEC considers these memory wasting features).
>
>	Anyway, the systems are up, but nothing wants to recognize the
>floppy drive.  The devs are gens, but my guess is the kernel doesn't have
>the support features in it.

This is interesting, because I have recently (Nov 92) re-installed about 5 
personal DECstations (mixture of /25s and /33s) under ULTRIX 4.3, and they all
worked and MTools worked without any problems.

You have to use /dev/rfd0c on the personal DECstations, but I set MTools up
to use /dev/floppy and then link /dev/floppy to the appropriate thing on each 
WS, as I like to place MTools binaries in /usr/local/bin and then NFS mount it 
on lots of clients.

Regards
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Richard Sharpe,  sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com,  Ph: 61-8-235-7237,  FAX: ...-7299
Digital Equipment Corporation, 139 Frome St, Adelaide 5001, South Australia, OZ
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From: sharpe@nmesis.enet.dec.com (Richard Sharpe)
Subject: Re: Mtools on a Personal DECstation?
Message-ID: <1993Jan26.233207.250@engage.pko.dec.com>
Keywords: mtools floppy personal decstation
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:32:07 GMT
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