Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 13:36:14 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: geoffb@demon.net Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC Multia support Message-ID: <199811132136.NAA00449@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:42:06 GMT." <199811131642.QAA19674@gti.noc.demon.net>
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*PLEASE* keep discussions of Alpha-specific stuff on the freebsd-alpha mailing list. > > > Given the above is my best route to installing FreeBSD to start with > > > NetBSD and migrate? > > > > If you have SCSI disks, then the best route is to install using the floppy > > images from the regular snapshots. We can boot from a floppy without > > problems. There isn't a floppy driver to use after boot yet though. > > > Sorry I'm not with the machine now so cant experiment. Do I not need a > 2.8MB floppy for the above to work? (The above seems to imply booting > kern.flp will result in a kernel that can't read its mfs. Please > forgive me if I'm missing something. No, the mfsroot image is (obviously) loaded before the kernel starts. > If i dd the boot.flp onto a pcmcia flash could I boot from that? > Or boot kern.flp from floppy and take mfsroot.gz from the flash? No and no. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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