From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 5 09:14:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA23005 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 09:14:55 -0800 (PST) (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 JAA22999; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 09:14:52 -0800 (PST) (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 RAA09041; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:14:23 GMT Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Paul Richards cc: "'Wilko Bulte'" , mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: installing boot? In-Reply-To: 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, 5 Dec 1998, Paul Richards wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] > > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 1:47 AM > > To: mike@smith.net.au > > Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com; dfr@nlsystems.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; > > msmith@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: installing boot? > > > > > > > > I understand I need mfsroot.gz on a UFS formatted floppy. > > I'll try this > > tomorrow. Need some sleep & get rid of some surplus beer first ;-) > > I think the docs could do with some tweaking, it took me some time to > work out exactly what I was supposed to do with the mfsroot.gz as well. I think that mfsroot.gz should be put into a UFS formatted disk image. It would be much easier to just dd install.flp (or whatever) to a disk instead of trying to create a filesystem and copy mfsroot.gz into it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message