Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2001 14:06:58 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/sysinstall disks.c Message-ID: <3A97B1F2.12CCEAFD@herbelot.com> References: <20010222203042.C2043@elia.heep.sax.de> <200102222311.f1MNBBf41756@mobile.wemm.org> <20010224132508.A13817@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote: > > As Peter Wemm wrote: > > > If only it were so. We stopped using DD mode at yahoo because we > > could not dd disk images from scsi <-> IDE and use scsi disks on > > different controllers (eg: ncr/sym <-> adaptec). > > I generally ignore IDE disks (except for my notebook), so i can't tell > about this. But moving disks between various SCSI controllers has > always worked for me. Maybe i didn't test that case very much lately, > i admit. Also, i'm simply ignoring fdisk tables as a matter of > principle since they are of no use to me... > > > In the end, we just completely gave > > up and now use PXE to create non-DD disks. > > Btw., where can i find some documentation about PXE? I've seen the > term referenced here and there, but have no clue about it. > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe.html is a good start, like pxeboot(8)and rc.diskless[12] -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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