Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 08:07:08 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux Message-ID: <199809192207.IAA21892@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199809192143.PAA05246@harmony.village.org> from Warner Losh at "Sep 19, 98 03:43:51 pm"
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Warner Losh wrote: > > Is it possible to make a FreeBSD disk bootable under DUX? That is, > can I install the FreeBSD boot blocks using DUX? I suspect that I'd > have to hack disklabel to do the right thing, as well as a special > mknode that "copes" with DUX's way of putting special files into the > file system. Is there anything fundamentally wrong with this idea? > 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. >From DUX, the "easy" thing to do is dd a disk image that already has the boot blocks on it. It's probably worth waiting a few weeks for things to settle down after the rush to beat the beta freeze for 3.0. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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