From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 14 01:05:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA26563 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:05:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA26557 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:05:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA21638; Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:05:49 GMT Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 09:05:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: geoffb@demon.net cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC Multia support In-Reply-To: <199811131642.QAA19674@gti.noc.demon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > 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? I think you can put mfsroot.gz on one (UFS formatted) floppy and use kern.flp to boot with. I haven't actually tried this since I can't write floppies at the moment for various reasons. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message