Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030803013627.GA98015@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030730222336.GB73438@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <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> <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730205620.GB33188@sunbay.com> <20030730222336.GB73438@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 12:23:36AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > Well... if need be. But read the mail on my experiment with a dd of the > miniinst.iso onto a harddisk. This is more or less what I've been talking about. 5.1-RELEASE-alpha-miniinst.iso is 236M, which is way too big. If you take a 4.x boot.flp, you should also be able to dd that onto a SCSI disk and boot it. So what we need is an image that conatains only a minimal memory filesystem /, a full GENERIC kernel, and full set of modules. This image will come in under 8MB. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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