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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:58:51 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Subject:   Re: Alpha 4.8 RC2 -- COME AND GET IT!!
Message-ID:  <20030319195851.C48087@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15992.46508.848181.114241@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:23:40PM -0500
References:  <20030318165640.GA83997@dragon.nuxi.com> <200303190052.h2J0qd0U035726@vashon.polstra.com> <20030319182050.GA92527@dragon.nuxi.com> <15992.46508.848181.114241@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 01:23:40PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> David O'Brien writes:
>  > On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 04:52:39PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>  > > Is "4.8-RC2-alpha-miniinst.iso" sufficient for testing the install,
>  > 
>  > Yes.  The miniinst is disc1 minus all the packages.  I.e., it is the most
>  > that one can get of the traditional disc1 from only the output of "make
>  > release".
>  > 
> 
> Wilko raised some questions about the bootability of this image.
> 
> Wilko: Did you find out if the problem was on your end, or is the
> image bad?

One needs (needed, I think David fixed it by now?) to run 
the setcdboot tool on it (setcdboot foo.iso /boot/cdboot will do it).
setcdboot is in ports/sysutils.

After I did that things booted just fine.

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|   / o / /_  _   		wilko@FreeBSD.org
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