Timeline for Anyone with information on tape format used with early SunOS2.0 or how to get the data out
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| Feb 29, 2020 at 14:15 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | The information in the server link is not applicable to my situation as I am not on a Solaris or SunOS box. I do not have tape, just a .tgz file file from off the Internet | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 13:43 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | I have now unpacked 3 different SunOS version tgz files, all with similar results directories named tape1, to tape4 containing numbered files that "file" says are data. The iso files for other version have been easy, simply mount them on /mnt and tar them off, then unpack in target pigeonhole (directory). | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | part II of comment: ls -R gives; Sunos_3.2_sun2: tape1 tape2 tape3 tape4 Sunos_3.2_sun2-tapeimgs/tape1: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 Sunos_3.2_sun2-tapeimgs/tape2: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 Sunos_3.2_sun2-tapeimgs/tape3: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 Sunos_3.2_sun2-tapeimgs/tape4: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 file 01, gives 01: data | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 13:37 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | Hi I am trying to build/regenerate the source tree of Sunos_3.2_sun2 from the tgz tape. i successfully uncompressed the tar , into ./Sunos_3.2_sun2" what I have is four directors ./Sunos_3.2_sun2/tape1, etc | |
| Feb 29, 2020 at 13:28 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | Hi I am trying to build/regenerate the source tree of Sunos_3.2_sun2 from the tgz tape. i successfully uncompressed the tar , into ./Sunos_3.2_sun2" what I have is four directors ./Sunos_3.2_sun2/tape1, etc | |
| Feb 28, 2020 at 11:00 | comment | added | schily | You did not mention what you like to do. If you like to create a QIC boot tape, you just need to dd the images in the right order to a QIC tape cassette using the no-rewind tape device entry. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 17:29 | comment | added | OldBlueBear | Thank you for taking the time to reply. I do not have "real" tape, just a .tgz tape that unpacked to three directories each with a series of files numbered in ascending order and of various sizes possibly individual files from the original tapes. | |
| Feb 27, 2020 at 15:24 | history | answered | schily | CC BY-SA 4.0 |