Date: 04 May 1999 09:42:34 +0200 From: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, grog@lemis.com, ks@hirvi.net, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box Message-ID: <43g15dz3f9.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Mon, 3 May 1999 16:49:07 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905031648150.67765-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Mon, 3 May 1999 16:49:07 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said: >> You won't need a CD writer for testing, a spare SCSI disk with about >> 700MB capacity or more would be just fine. It doesn't matter to SRM >> whether the image is on a CD or on a hard disk... > Hmm. Sounds like a standard SRM boot when (which is easy). Just need to > make sure that libstand understands iso9660 filesystems. Yes, that makes sense. I looked at the isomarkboot code: The position and size of the bootable file it put into byte locations 480ff. Both are measured in blocks. There's one problem with this: It's only possible to boot from CD drives that support a 512 byte block size. Not all drives do that, and it's a burden to jumper them in the right way. Maybe it would be possible to make those entries in 2048 unities? I never tried it, and then of course a real CD would be needed for testing. Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost+sig0@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phone: ++49/241/807917 Germany | fax: ++49/241/8890378 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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