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From: james@forluna.co.uk
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Subject: Re: Booting an Apollo with the external scsi connection
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On Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:54:53 UTC, supervinx  wrote:
> Did you ever user 10.4 tape images found on Bitsavers ?
> I tried them on the emulator.
> During the initial writing on the hard disk, after=20
> EX DOMAIN_OS
> when writing the SAU7/ part, system stops signaling a tape error
> (I mean a logical error, not physical), like there had been a CPTAPE erro=
r
> when the images were created.
> The sistem is incomplete: cannot execute nor GO nor INIT, only SHUT and R=
EBOOT.

Hi there,

I tried to install Domain/OS in the emulator from the tape images on Bitsav=
ers but I had the same problems as you. I tried it several times and eventu=
ally the first part worked and I got through to part 2 of the install in th=
e DM, but the other tapes kept failing at different points so I couldn't co=
mplete the install. I am not sure if it is a problem with the tape images o=
r the tape emulation. It is quite a shame that the disk images mentioned in=
 the Readme aren't available. I know there are licensing issues but really =
this can only be of historical interest now surely.