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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:45:04 -0800
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
To:        Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Cc:        "Chinasee B." <chinaseeb@unocal.com>, "'install@FreeBSD.ORG'" <install@FreeBSD.ORG>, postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 3.4 make netboot problem 
Message-ID:  <31049.950586304@zippy.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:37:22 %2B0100." <20000214223722.J793@uriah.heep.sax.de> 

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I'm happy to see it die.

> (I think the freebsd-install list needs to be killed.  It was intended
> to be used for people working at the install programs, but most if not
> all of them left, and some people notoriously seem to confuse the list
> with questions@freebsd.org.  Jordan, any objections?)
> 
> As Chinasee B. wrote:
> 
> > cc -O2 -DNFS -DROMSIZE=16384 -DRELOC=0x90000 -DPCI -DPCI_VENDOR=0x10ec
> > -DPCI_DEVICE=0x8029 -DPCI_CLASS=0x02,0x00,0x00 -DASK_BOOT -aout
> > -I/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot/../../.. -I/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot
> > -DROMSIZE=16384  -static -o makerom  
> > /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot/makerom.c
> > ld: scrt0.o: No such file or directory
> > *** Error code 1
> 
> Sorry, the old /sys/i386/boot/netboot/ is currently not supported at
> all.  It'll only be able to load a.out kernels anyway (wich are
> deprecated by now), and it requires some older a.out parts of the
> toolchain which are only available to people who gradually upgraded
> their systems from old a.out systems but which are no longer available
> for freshly installed systems, not even in situations where the a.out
> `compat' distributions have been installed.
> 
> I think there's a more recent version of network booting available
> from the ports collection, but the actual name escaped me for the
> moment.
> 
> -- 
> cheers, J"org                                                73 de DL8DTL
> 
> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de                  http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
> Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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