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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 1998 18:26:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Making a disk bootable under dux
Message-ID:  <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org>
References:  <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org>

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Warner Losh writes:
 > Right now, I have this disk that has all of FreeBSD alpha on it, but
 > don't want to duplicate that on another machine just to netboot the
 > thing to install the bootblocks.
 > 
 > Comments?

You don't need to duplicate the whole thing, just the kernel. The
kernel you netboot will use the local disk as its root.  Heck, I don't
even know how to make FreeBSD/alpha use an nfs root these days..

Drew

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