From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 31 02:25:31 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE9037B404; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:25:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A724743FAF; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:25:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from user-38lc0sl.dialup.mindspring.com ([209.86.3.149] helo=mindspring.com) by bluejay.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 19i9gS-0001BA-00; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:25:16 -0700 Message-ID: <3F28E042.9363F072@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 02:24:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ticso@cicely.de References: <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730154052.GA55744@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730185412.GA71527@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730190730.GP42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730191738.GC71737@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730194829.GQ42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030731083155.GA97176@cicely12.cicely.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a492476bf7ae013b198bc639d43be11d21350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Scott Long cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:25:32 -0000 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:33:32PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > On 2003-Jul-30 22:11:09 +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > [dd the install image onto a HDD] > > >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. > > > > I also had to do it to bootstrap my Multia - no floppy drive or CD-ROM > > and the FreeBSD netboot is incompatible with the Multia SRM. > > Must be multia specific - I netbooted a NoName. I can confirm it on my Multia, too. > IIRC have multias pcmcia slots. > Can they boot from flash media? Not that's I've been able to get it to do; it has one slot, but bootability is a firmware thing. -- Terry