🚀 go-pugleaf

    Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 13:40 EDT
    From: "Christopher Oliver" <oliver@fritz.traverse.com>

    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?  

I believe they have to be QIC-100.  I'll fire of a question to the
person who actually did the work, which is probably quicker than
looking in the sources.

You can get an external SCSI disk that can be formated to 1280 bytes
per sector, and copy all relevant stuff to it, in case your ESDI
internal drive fails.  You can even install one of these internally
(the SCSI cables are inside the box).  The disks are cheaper and
more available than the disks, nowadays.					    
					    
					    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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