Re: iplsrrc(d) -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Re: iplsrrc(d)
From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 16:09:10 -0500
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Neil brings up an interesting point, and to tell you the truth, I
never thought about there actually being a tape in the machine
during a reload/install. I truly believe it looked at CDROM first.

Maybe it looks at the first available device ???

Neil Palmer wrote:
>
> Yes - tape first (the WHOLE tape), so if starting an upgrade from 'D'
> using CD make sure you remove any tape from the drive first, or it may
> spend AGES reading the whole tape looking for the boot file, before moving
> on to the CD drive.

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