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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:21:50 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.org>, Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@FreeBSD.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Floppies for ALPHA
Message-ID:  <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do.
> > >=20
> > Thanks, it sure does.  :-)
> > But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed
> > it now?
>=20
> Not as posted.  As I mentioned, the patch does too much.  Can you post a
> new patch that produces a single 8MB MFSBOOT "floppy" image?
>=20
MFSBOOT?  This is something new.  :-)

I guess you mean the current boot.flp by it, right?  If yes,
I can't see a point in having it, so please explain.  How it
could be used?

For sparc64, boot.flp is useful, beause "you can dd it to a disk
=66rom solaris and then boot off it to install", according to
Jake.  Can the same be made on Alpha?  Otherwise, I don't see
a point in having it.

The idea is to have a miniboot.iso that just resembles the
contents of the boot.flp, but can be used to boot off the
CD-ROM (and then do an FTP installation, for example).


Cheers,
--=20
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru@sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru@FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer

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