From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Sep 20 03:44:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA28956 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 03:44:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA28894 for ; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 03:43:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA27290; Sun, 20 Sep 1998 10:43:58 GMT Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:43:58 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Andrew Gallatin cc: Warner Losh , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux In-Reply-To: <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message