IBM DASD alternatives?

[jim stephens]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Patrick Finnegan wrote:
>
> Oh.  I almost forgot.  You can also boot VM from tape and create a 
> virtual minidisk in storage.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar
>
>
I dont think even the starter system is very happy w/o some sort of 
dasd, and certainly not
very useful.  maybe you could illuminate where such a tape comes from 
and what is
genned into it, etc?