Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 20:39:09 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD as high speed router Message-ID: <38B48BBD.2DBBDCBA@bellatlantic.net> References: <200002220935.KAA14202@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000223114214.A45619@cons.org> <20000223115722.A23927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <20000223134113.A5723@cons.org>
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Martin Cracauer wrote: > > In <20000223115722.A23927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > Would be interesting to tell how you managed to produce a bootable floppy > > with the subsequent scripting that starts the OS and all that. > > The trick I used is that I have a custom `init` binary, which looks at > getpid() and argv[0] and depending on that bahaves like: Now as the CD-ROM drives are quite cheap (I've got a 24x IDE drive for $30 about half a year ago) and the CD-writers are commonplace (and the writable/ re-witable CDs are also cheap) a bootable CD-ROM may be a simpler and more extensible solution. The bootable CD-ROMs can be created with mkhybrid: just create a floppy image that will mount cdrom as it root FS and give it to mkhybrid. You can still use floppy for such things as configuration files. The only caveat is to make sure that your BIOS is able to boot from CDROM. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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