From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 1 14:53:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B850C37B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:53:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48E6D43E42 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:53:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA1MrcCE012147; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:53:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA1MqMcu012122; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:52:22 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:52:22 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Fred Clift Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021101225222.GA12071@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Fred Clift , alpha@freebsd.org References: <15810.64745.425793.33748@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021101151718.U7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021101151718.U7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Fred Clift wrote: > I'm not totally familiar with the boot-system and how install floppies are > put together, but could many of the drivers be loaded as modules from > another floppy? They already are. Seriously, unless you are prepared to do a 'cd /usr/src/release ; make release', and hack on this; you shouldn't be speaking up. > > > Are there other options? > > Netbooting. > > So how does netbooting work on alphas? Is there somewhere I can go read > about it? boot boot ewa0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message