From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 18:19:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0E4C37B404 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:19:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from roadrage.myip.org (roc-66-66-93-214.rochester.rr.com [66.66.93.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CA0F43EDA for ; Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:19:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from blkdragn@roadrage.myip.org) Received: (qmail 10162 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Dec 2002 02:19:04 -0000 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 21:19:03 -0500 From: Black Dragon To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFS Message-ID: <20021218021903.GA9510@roadrage.myip.org> References: <20021218010505.GA8317@roadrage.myip.org> <20021218011127.GA12296@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20021218014533.GA9126@roadrage.myip.org> <20021218014820.GE12296@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021218014820.GE12296@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Key: http://roadrage.myip.org/blkdragn/blkdragn.asc X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE i386 Organization: Black Dragon Heavy Industries, Ltd. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 12:18:20PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 17 December 2002 at 20:45:33 -0500, Black Dragon wrote: > > I need to set up a tftp server to do an IRIX installation, and because > > I can't mount the installation cds on FreeBSD, I'm going to have to > > install Linux on a spare machine. Bummer. :-( > > No, you don't need XFS to net boot. I spent a lot of time netbooting > Linux from a FreeBSD system, and I didn't use ext2fs for that. Ack! I'm losing my mind. :-\ I meant to ask about EFS (Extent filesystem), which is what is used on SGI distribution cds. I can't mount EFS cds on FreeBSD, therefore I can't net-boot IRIX from it, and have to fall back to Linux. Sorry about the confusion. -- Black Dragon /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign \ / against HTML mail and Hell, rocket science isn't even rocket science. X postings. A NASA Rocket Scientist; Undernet; circa 1996 / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message