From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 5 14:38:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B74FB14A01; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 14:38:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id XAA27517; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:28:07 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA15055; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:27:43 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199912052227.XAA15055@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: ISP firmware compiled in as a default.... In-Reply-To: <199912050356.TAA17391@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Dec 4, 1999 7:56:44 pm" To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:27:43 +0100 (CET) Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Jason Thorpe wrote ... > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:42:57 +0100 (CET) > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Don't shoot me: the right thing to do is to make it possible to boot > > FreeBSD/alpha from a CDROM. With or without Qlogic firmware FreeBSD/alpha > > is quickly getting too big to be really practical as far as floppy booting > > goes. NetBSD can do CDROM booting, but I don't really understand the > > issues around CDROM bootability. Having fixed the size problem the extra > > NetBSD can also boot a kernel split across multiple floppies. Our > libsa `ustarfs' is pretty cool: > > nbftp:thorpej 15$ ls -l > total 6256 > 1456 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 1474560 Dec 4 19:05 disk1of2 > 816 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 819200 Dec 4 19:05 disk2of2 > > ...that's a NetBSD/alpha install floppy set. Neat. One learns something new everyday :) I had used NetBSD install from a CDR before. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message