Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 11:13:47 +0200 From: "Peter Korsten" <peterk@maltanet.net> To: "Craig Rodrigues" <rodrigc@attbi.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-firewire@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD-CURRENT off of a Firewire disk? Message-ID: <016601c22026$dd17b640$8c00000a@default> References: <20020629150018.A6689@attbi.com>
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From: "Craig Rodrigues" <rodrigc@attbi.com> > I am interested in installing FreeBSD-CURRENT on this machine. > The hard drive can be pre-installed with Windows XP, and I don't want > to blow away that install, nor do I want to resize the partition. > > The computer comes with a "Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Adapter". > Would I be able to buy an external Firewire hard disk and install a bootable > FreeBSD partition on that disk? What is the state of Firewire support > under FreeBSD? > > [...] > > Would I be able to use these under FreeBSD? If you can make a boot block for FreeBSD that has firewire support, you might pull it off. I think it's the only scenario possible with the restrictions (no resizing of the XP partition, etc.) that you describe. Since a boot block is typically very small (512 bytes or so), this could be a real challenge. - Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-firewire" in the body of the message
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