From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jun 28 11:49:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from turtle.looksharp.net (cc360882-a.strhg1.mi.home.com [24.2.221.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D21D37B871; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:49:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Received: from localhost (bandix@localhost) by turtle.looksharp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA51679; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:50:03 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bandix@looksharp.net) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 14:50:03 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brandon D. Valentine" To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "David O'Brien" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The position of {boot,fixit}_crunch.conf In-Reply-To: <20000628202635.F1136@freebie.wbnet> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: >Rather, I mean a *small* bootable CD image like NetBSD uses, essentially >a 'super floppy'. Which would then be suitable for a Net install too. >There is already a LS120 (?) image similar to that I think. Which, btw, would be a nifty thing to have if you've got an alpha capable of bootstrapping over the network. I've just installed NetBSD/sparc on a couple of sparcs using NetBSD's boot.net images and an NFS mounted root directory as the install media. It's very cool and saved me the trouble of tracking down a SCSI floppy or CDROM. Brandon D. Valentine -- bandix at looksharp.net | bandix at structbio.vanderbilt.edu "Truth suffers from too much analysis." -- Ancient Fremen Saying To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message