From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Dec 5 13:45:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA14613 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:45:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.gn.iaf.nl (silver.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA14606; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 13:45:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by silver.gn.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA02949; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:45:42 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA15500 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sat, 5 Dec 1998 22:31:46 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id VAA23459; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:48:28 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199812052048.VAA23459@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: installing boot? In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Dec 5, 98 05:14:23 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 21:48:28 +0100 (CET) Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Doug Rabson wrote... > 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. install.flp does not fit on a single floppy for FreeBSD/axp... Could use a harddisk for this purpose but that is pretty awkward at best. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message