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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:43:58 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making a disk bootable under dux
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809201142570.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> 
> 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..

One day soon, I will force myself to write/port the root detection code.
If anyone beats me to it of course, that would be great...

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