Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:26:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux Message-ID: <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> References: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh writes: > 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. > > Comments? You don't need to duplicate the whole thing, just the kernel. The kernel you netboot will use the local disk as its root. Heck, I don't even know how to make FreeBSD/alpha use an nfs root these days.. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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