Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:14:23 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> Cc: "'Wilko Bulte'" <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>, mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: installing boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812051712410.399-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D108818@OCTOPUS>
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Paul Richards wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] > > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 1:47 AM > > To: mike@smith.net.au > > Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com; dfr@nlsystems.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; > > msmith@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: installing boot? > > > > > > > > I understand I need mfsroot.gz on a UFS formatted floppy. > > I'll try this > > tomorrow. Need some sleep & get rid of some surplus beer first ;-) > > I think the docs could do with some tweaking, it took me some time to > work out exactly what I was supposed to do with the mfsroot.gz as well. I think that mfsroot.gz should be put into a UFS formatted disk image. It would be much easier to just dd install.flp (or whatever) to a disk instead of trying to create a filesystem and copy mfsroot.gz into it. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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