From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 6 19:50:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA09265 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:50:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from dg-rtp.dg.com (dg-rtp.rtp.dg.com [128.222.1.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA09247 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 19:50:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by dg-rtp.dg.com (5.4R3.10/dg-rtp-v02) id AA15773; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:50:10 -0500 Received: from ponds by dg-rtp.dg.com.rtp.dg.com; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:50 EST Received: from lakes.water.net (lakes [10.0.0.3]) by ponds.water.net (8.8.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA18406; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:39:20 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.water.net (8.8.3/8.6.9) id WAA12242; Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:45:05 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Mar 1997 22:45:05 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199703070345.WAA12242@lakes.water.net> To: ponds!root.com!dg, ponds!freefall.cdrom.com!freebsd-hackers, ponds!uriah.heep.sax.de!joerg_wunsch, ponds!critter.dk.tfs.com!phk, ponds!lakes.water.net!rivers, ponds!lambert.org!terry, ponds!dyson.iquest.net!toor Subject: "dup alloc" test-system even closer. Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Well - my last idea about simply having ifconfig and mount_nfs on the floppy, and mounting everything else you might need has paid off. I now have everything but SERIAL_CONSOLE there. That is, I have this floppy that will boot up; start a shell, configure the network, mount a directory that contains everything needed. The scenario I imagine is: telnet into my machine. start kermit to connect to reproducing machine ftp a new kernel over (I had to build a non-shared library version of ftp; not at all difficult.) reboot the test machine and see what happens This should provide the needed access to anyone interested in debugging this beastie... (again, once serial console is "working.") - Dave Rivers -