On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 19:44, David Boyes wrote: > > I remember IPL'ing an IBM 1130 via cards. Just one hand full. The Suse > > Linux 8.1 starter system is over 20,000 cards (2 cases, 5 boxes per > > case). If you actually had the entire system on cards, could you ever, > > actually, IPL? > > I have one customer who still has a real 2540 and more cards than they can > ever use. I'll ask them if I can use it to give it a try.
ISTR that it does not IPL from a real deck, but it would be cool to be proven wrong.
