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To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c
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J Wunsch wrote:
> 
> As Peter Wemm wrote:
> 
> > If only it were so.  We stopped using DD mode at yahoo because we
> > could not dd disk images from scsi <-> IDE and use scsi disks on
> > different controllers (eg: ncr/sym <-> adaptec).
> 
> I generally ignore IDE disks (except for my notebook), so i can't tell
> about this.  But moving disks between various SCSI controllers has
> always worked for me.  Maybe i didn't test that case very much lately,
> i admit.  Also, i'm simply ignoring fdisk tables as a matter of
> principle since they are of no use to me...
> 
> > In the end, we just completely gave
> > up and now use PXE to create non-DD disks.
> 
> Btw., where can i find some documentation about PXE?  I've seen the
> term referenced here and there, but have no clue about it.
> 
http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html is a good start, like
pxeboot(8)and rc.diskless[12]

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Thierry Herbelot

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