Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:26 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:21:50PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do. > > > > > > > Thanks, it sure does. :-) > > > But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed > > > it now? > > > > Not as posted. As I mentioned, the patch does too much. Can you post a > > new patch that produces a single 8MB MFSBOOT "floppy" image? > > > MFSBOOT? This is something new. :-) > > I guess you mean the current boot.flp by it, right? If yes, > I can't see a point in having it, so please explain. How it > could be used? > > For sparc64, boot.flp is useful, beause "you can dd it to a disk > from solaris and then boot off it to install", according to > Jake. Can the same be made on Alpha? Yes it can. MFSROOT(BOOT) what ever you want to call it. I.e., / is not the hard disk you want to install on -- thus it has to be RAM disk so the real hard disk device isn't opened. > The idea is to have a miniboot.iso that just resembles the > contents of the boot.flp, but can be used to boot off the > CD-ROM (and then do an FTP installation, for example). NO! The idea is to have an image that has / as a memory file system, that has a full GENERIC kernel *and* has a full set of modules *and* has sysinstall as /sbin/init. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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