Ignite-UX Installation Booting

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Booting from tape (HP9000 only)
The make_boot_tape(1m) command can create a bootable tape containing just enough information
to boot a HP9000 system. However, you must use a combination of an interface card and a tape
drive that is bootable. Booting the tape will get the system to the point where it can contact an
Ignite-UX server.
Note the –f option to make_boot_tape which allows you to specify the configuration that will be
placed into the LIF on the tape. In this configuration file (which is limited to 8 KB
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), you need to
give information such as the IP address of the Ignite-UX server.
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Ignite-UX takes advantage of the fact that the first 8Kb of filesystems are not used (true for HFS and VxFS filesystems currently) to allow for
up to 8Kb of configuration information to be kept in the install filesystem.