From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Sep 19 15:26:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08394 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:26:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08380 for ; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 15:26:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@duke.cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA19142; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:26:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA20631; Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:26:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:26:10 -0400 (EDT) To: Warner Losh Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux In-Reply-To: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> References: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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