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Assume your disk dies. ;-)

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From: Christopher Oliver
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 00:00
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I just got an XL1201, and I'm happily stuffing the wisdom of
Docex into my meager brain, but I am worried that my disks
might evaporate of their own accord or due to my stupidity.

In reading the Genera 8.1 Software Installation Guide, I see
that it's possible to put ones life thegether using CD, but
only if one reads "Symbolics Genera 8.foo CD-ROM XL Bootstrap
Tape."  Is this simply a FEP kernel on a SCSI tape file?  Would
a FEP kernel written to a DC600 or DC6150 tape with Linux DD
and read from a Tandberg drive work for disaster recovery, or
can FEP only talk to QIC-100/gammamat?  Assume for this exercise
that your disks have nothing on them.

Yours in confusion,

-- 
Christopher Oliver                     Traverse Internet
Systems Coordinator                    223 Grandview Pkwy, Suite 108
oliver@traverse.net                    Traverse City, Michigan, 49684
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