Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:59:46 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730045946.GA22205@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com>
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--+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 06:43:26PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:21:50PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do. > > > > >=20 > > > > Thanks, it sure does. :-) > > > > But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed > > > > it now? > > >=20 > > > Not as posted. As I mentioned, the patch does too much. Can you pos= t a > > > new patch that produces a single 8MB MFSBOOT "floppy" image? > > >=20 > > MFSBOOT? This is something new. :-) > >=20 > > I guess you mean the current boot.flp by it, right? If yes, > > I can't see a point in having it, so please explain. How it > > could be used? > >=20 > > For sparc64, boot.flp is useful, beause "you can dd it to a disk > > from solaris and then boot off it to install", according to > > Jake. Can the same be made on Alpha? >=20 > Yes it can. MFSROOT(BOOT) what ever you want to call it. I.e., / is not > the hard disk you want to install on -- thus it has to be RAM disk so the > real hard disk device isn't opened. >=20 Please provide a real-world scenario how this image could be used. The contents of MFS root floppy does *NOT* have a kernel, and just increasing its size to say 10M won't do the trick. > > The idea is to have a miniboot.iso that just resembles the > > contents of the boot.flp, but can be used to boot off the > > CD-ROM (and then do an FTP installation, for example). >=20 > NO! The idea is to have an image that has / as a memory file system, > that has a full GENERIC kernel *and* has a full set of modules *and* has > sysinstall as /sbin/init. >=20 How such an image can be used on Alpha? (This is what miniboot.iso will look like, and I think we can even generate both ISO image and floppy image from it, but I just cannot understand how the latter can be used on Alpha, please answer the question above.) Can anyone else out there please explian what David wants, as I just cannot understand it, despite trying really hard? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/J1DCUkv4P6juNwoRAvDUAJ9g5stXOfL9z8iZ0uFZDcWcWwctYQCgipah tuej4phJdN3py58PEEw8rDw= =7SCF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+HP7ph2BbKc20aGI--
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