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- From: sauer@chs.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
- Subject: Re: Installing non-standard net cards on Dell
- Message-ID: <1992Nov24.004207.11644@raid.dell.com>
- Summary: TAPEINSTALL tapecntl -t
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- Organization: Dell Computer Corporation
- References: <1992Nov23.172554.1144@crd.ge.com>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 00:42:07 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Nov23.172554.1144@crd.ge.com> davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen) writes:
- > About the third time I reinstalled, I begain to wonder if I could
- >patch the boot floppy to not retension the tape every flaming time I ran
- >install. I actually did a physical copy of the floppy to the hard disk
- >of another machine and looked for the retension stuff. I finally left it
- >alone, having pleanty of time Sunday afternoon to go watch the football
- >games.
-
- In the TAPEINSTALL script, the second tapecntl (line 121 in my copy) does
- the retension (the one with the -t flag). I've often skipped this by
- booting up to the tape/network/none choice in the install process, chosen
- none, commented out this line in the RAM disk copy of this file (the one
- copied there from diskette), and then reinvoked INSTALL, which invokes
- TAPEINSTALL.
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