Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 19:56:44 -0800 From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP firmware compiled in as a default.... Message-ID: <199912050356.TAA17391@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>
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On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:42:57 +0100 (CET) Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: > Don't shoot me: the right thing to do is to make it possible to boot > FreeBSD/alpha from a CDROM. With or without Qlogic firmware FreeBSD/alpha > is quickly getting too big to be really practical as far as floppy booting > goes. NetBSD can do CDROM booting, but I don't really understand the > issues around CDROM bootability. Having fixed the size problem the extra NetBSD can also boot a kernel split across multiple floppies. Our libsa `ustarfs' is pretty cool: nbftp:thorpej 15$ ls -l total 6256 1456 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 1474560 Dec 4 19:05 disk1of2 816 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 819200 Dec 4 19:05 disk2of2 ...that's a NetBSD/alpha install floppy set. -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message
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