[hppa] Boot from tape?

eesrjhc · n00b Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 17 Location: UK

I have a Apollo 715-80 with 2 SCSI disks and a SCSI DAT tape, currently running HP-UX 9. Unfortunately, no CD-Rom. Is there a means of booting Gentoo from tape? The tape drive is scanned during a search for bootable devices, and the HP-UX installation media is on tape, so the machine will boot from the tape drive.

Roger.

Spooky Ghost · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

Once you are installed you should be able to boot from tape according to the PALO documentation at http://www.pateam.org/. I'm not sure how you would get the installation CD to boot though unless you can repakage the CD on the tape or perhaps do a network boot with root NFS.