Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:44:27 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <3F28D6EB.788CFD7@mindspring.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730154052.GA55744@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730185412.GA71527@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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Wilko Bulte 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). People who load from tape because they don't have Toshiba 3401B SCSI CDROM's, DEC-supplies SCSI CDROM's, or third party CDROM's that support 1K sector reads... 8-). Also, it's easier if you cross-build and then locally attach the drive and dd the image to it, than if you have to cross-build an entire release, burn a coaster, and then load the coaster on the CDROM drive you have to install, only to find out that it's, well, a coaster instead of a good ISO image. 8-) 8-). It's also easier, in my experience, to do the MSDOS disk label that the machine likes to see out there from an x86 box, instead of trying to use Alpha-native tools (YMMV). -- Terry
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