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Re: iplsrrc(d)

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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