Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 00:23:36 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730222336.GB73438@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030730205620.GB33188@sunbay.com> References: <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730045946.GA22205@sunbay.com> <20030730154052.GA55744@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030730155414.GA99616@sunbay.com> <20030730185412.GA71527@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730190730.GP42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730191738.GC71737@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730194829.GQ42805@cicely12.cicely.de> <20030730201109.GA72260@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030730205620.GB33188@sunbay.com>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:56:20PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:11:09PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:48:30PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:54:14PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > miniboot.iso is still much more useful, as it allows one to install > > > > > > > > > > > > I like it better too. But some people argue that not having to write > > > > > > the ISO on CDR is a good thing(TM). > > > > > > > > > > The dd the ISO to HDD. > > > > > > > > Where do you start the dd from then? (I agree, the non-ISO fs image > > > > suffers from the same problem). > > > > > > If you want do download something to bootstrap you need a machine with > > > network service and the capability to write data to a bootable media. > > > And we still have a large selection of possible media: CD, CDR, HDD, > > > MO, ZIP, Ethernet, ... > > > If you can't - then you have to buy a bootable media - usually a CD. > > > I see no alternative to the problem and it's nothing new. > > > Maybe David knows one - I failed to understand his last argument. > > > Possibly I have to take one of my sun3 and install SunOS to understand. > > > > Well, I have done something like this once by pulling a StorageWorks > > SBB disk from a machine where I dd-ed an OS ontop of it and then put > > that disk in another machine to boot it. > > > > So it can be done. > > > Don't you think that this should be an official way to install > FreeBSD on Alpha? :-) Well... if need be. But read the mail on my experiment with a dd of the miniinst.iso onto a harddisk. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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