Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Geoff Buckingham <geoffb@gti.noc.demon.net> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC Multia support Message-ID: <199811131642.QAA19674@gti.noc.demon.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9811122218470.11371-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Nov 12, 98 10:20:26 pm"
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> On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Geoff Buckingham wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > How well are the onboard IDE/floppy/ethernet of the Multia supported in > > > > current at the moment? > > > > > > Ethernet should work. Floppy will work when I find time to port the > > > floppy driver over. IDE will probably have to wait until the new atapi > > > code is ready. > > > > > > > Given the above is my best route to installing FreeBSD to start with > > NetBSD and migrate? > > If you have SCSI disks, then the best route is to install using the floppy > images from the regular snapshots. We can boot from a floppy without > problems. There isn't a floppy driver to use after boot yet though. > > Sorry I'm not with the machine now so cant experiment. Do I not need a 2.8MB floppy for the above to work? (The above seems to imply booting kern.flp will result in a kernel that can't read its mfs. Please forgive me if I'm missing something. If i dd the boot.flp onto a pcmcia flash could I boot from that? Or boot kern.flp from floppy and take mfsroot.gz from the flash? -- GeoffB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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