From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 19 15:02:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA05440 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:02:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA05416 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:02:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA21892; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:07:09 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809192207.IAA21892@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux In-Reply-To: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Sep 19, 98 03:43:51 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:07:08 +1000 (EST) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Warner Losh wrote: > > Is it possible to make a FreeBSD disk bootable under DUX? That is, > can I install the FreeBSD boot blocks using DUX? I suspect that I'd > have to hack disklabel to do the right thing, as well as a special > mknode that "copes" with DUX's way of putting special files into the > file system. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea? > Right now, I have this disk that has all of FreeBSD alpha on it, but > don't want to duplicate that on another machine just to netboot the > thing to install the bootblocks. >From DUX, the "easy" thing to do is dd a disk image that already has the boot blocks on it. It's probably worth waiting a few weeks for things to settle down after the rush to beat the beta freeze for 3.0. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message