From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 13 08:43:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00477 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:43:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from server.noc.demon.net (server.noc.demon.net [193.195.224.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00454 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:42:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net) Received: by server.noc.demon.net; id QAA02225; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:42:20 GMT Received: from gti.noc.demon.net(195.11.55.101) by inside.noc.demon.net via smap (3.2) id xmab02208; Fri, 13 Nov 98 16:42:09 GMT Received: (from geoffb@localhost) by gti.noc.demon.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19674; Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:42:06 GMT From: Geoff Buckingham Message-Id: <199811131642.QAA19674@gti.noc.demon.net> Subject: Re: DEC Multia support In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Nov 12, 98 10:20:26 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:42:06 +0000 (GMT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: geoffb@demon.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > How well are the onboard IDE/floppy/ethernet of the Multia supported in > > > > current at the moment? > > > > > > Ethernet should work. Floppy will work when I find time to port the > > > floppy driver over. IDE will probably have to wait until the new atapi > > > code is ready. > > > > > > > Given the above is my best route to installing FreeBSD to start with > > NetBSD and migrate? > > If you have SCSI disks, then the best route is to install using the floppy > images from the regular snapshots. We can boot from a floppy without > problems. There isn't a floppy driver to use after boot yet though. > > Sorry I'm not with the machine now so cant experiment. Do I not need a 2.8MB floppy for the above to work? (The above seems to imply booting kern.flp will result in a kernel that can't read its mfs. Please forgive me if I'm missing something. If i dd the boot.flp onto a pcmcia flash could I boot from that? Or boot kern.flp from floppy and take mfsroot.gz from the flash? -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message