Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:23:50 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <jeremyp@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alpha vs i386 filesystems Message-ID: <99Oct22.071920est.40324@border.alcanet.com.au>
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Has anyone ever tried building an Alpha boot disk (SCSI HD) on an i386 box? I presume the partition tables and UFS formats are identical, so the approach would be: - add disk to i386 system as `dangerously dedicated' (ie no slice table) - partition disk normally - install Alpha bootloaders with `disklabel -B', explicitly specifying the boot1 and boot2 from the Alpha release. - newfs partitions as wanted and copy Alpha release files into them. - move disk from i386 to Alpha and boot it. [I'm looking at this approach because I can't get netboot to work. I intend to write a separate missive, probably in -current, about my experiences trying to cross-compile netboot]. Peter -- Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Alcatel Australia Limited 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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