Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:11:09 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030730194829.GQ42805@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730045946.GA22205@sunbay.com> <20030730154052.GA55744@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730155414.GA99616@sunbay.com> <20030730185412.GA71527@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730190730.GP42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730191738.GC71737@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730194829.GQ42805@cicely12.cicely.de>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:48:30PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:54:14PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > miniboot.iso is still much more useful, as it allows one to install > > > > > > > > I like it better too. But some people argue that not having to write > > > > the ISO on CDR is a good thing(TM). > > > > > > The dd the ISO to HDD. > > > > Where do you start the dd from then? (I agree, the non-ISO fs image > > suffers from the same problem). > > If you want do download something to bootstrap you need a machine with > network service and the capability to write data to a bootable media. > And we still have a large selection of possible media: CD, CDR, HDD, > MO, ZIP, Ethernet, ... > If you can't - then you have to buy a bootable media - usually a CD. > I see no alternative to the problem and it's nothing new. > Maybe David knows one - I failed to understand his last argument. > Possibly I have to take one of my sun3 and install SunOS to understand. Well, I have done something like this once by pulling a StorageWorks SBB disk from a machine where I dd-ed an OS ontop of it and then put that disk in another machine to boot it. So it can be done. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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