Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:04:39 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Jeff Blank <jfb@mtu.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.2-RELEASE miniroot Message-ID: <20040116170343.T93165@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040115212421.GA14803@mtu.edu> References: <20040115212421.GA14803@mtu.edu>
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Jeff Blank wrote: > Can someone clue me in on how sparc64/5.2-RELEASE/miniroot/miniroot.ufs.gz > is to be used? I can't find any mention of it in the install docs on > the FreeBSD FTP server or web site. I had assumed it was a bootable > filesystem for starting an installer (like OpenBSD's minirootXX.fs > is), but my Ultra5 refuses to boot it. I guess I'm not surprised, > though, since it doesn't look much like a filesystem when I view the > first few bytes of the file, and it also seems rather bigger than a > miniroot would need to be. So I guess at this point, I'm mostly just > curious as to what it's for. Well first of all its gzipped so you'd need to undo that. I think its mainly targetted if you want to do a netboot and you need a filesystem for the kernel to grab. Since all Suns have built in netboot capability, you could exploit that to do automated installs and the like, or just run diskless. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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