Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 23:56:20 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730205620.GB33188@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730045946.GA22205@sunbay.com> <20030730154052.GA55744@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730155414.GA99616@sunbay.com> <20030730185412.GA71527@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730190730.GP42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730191738.GC71737@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730194829.GQ42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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--yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:11:09PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:48:30PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:54:14PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > miniboot.iso is still much more useful, as it allows one to ins= tall > > > > >=20 > > > > > I like it better too. But some people argue that not having to wr= ite > > > > > the ISO on CDR is a good thing(TM). > > > >=20 > > > > The dd the ISO to HDD. > > >=20 > > > Where do you start the dd from then? (I agree, the non-ISO fs image > > > suffers from the same problem). > >=20 > > If you want do download something to bootstrap you need a machine with > > network service and the capability to write data to a bootable media. > > And we still have a large selection of possible media: CD, CDR, HDD, > > MO, ZIP, Ethernet, ... > > If you can't - then you have to buy a bootable media - usually a CD. > > I see no alternative to the problem and it's nothing new. > > Maybe David knows one - I failed to understand his last argument. > > Possibly I have to take one of my sun3 and install SunOS to understand. >=20 > Well, I have done something like this once by pulling a StorageWorks > SBB disk from a machine where I dd-ed an OS ontop of it and then put > that disk in another machine to boot it. >=20 > So it can be done. >=20 Don't you think that this should be an official way to install FreeBSD on Alpha? :-) Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/KDD0Ukv4P6juNwoRAnfzAJ9tpDWfB7+bpIPoGBFZZmhEiyKDQACePsD7 D95iAU+JPp+IY/qxmJZvTIY= =lq2t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yNb1oOkm5a9FJOVX--
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