From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 2 18:36:38 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 90F1B37B401; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D119F43F3F; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h731aSQX016257; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h731aSUI016256; Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:28 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 18:36:27 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030803013627.GA98015@dragon.nuxi.com> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030730222336.GB73438@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2003 01:36:38 -0000 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)