Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 11:43:58 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making a disk bootable under dux Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809201142570.392-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <13828.12030.228472.369890@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Warner Losh writes: > > Right now, I have this disk that has all of FreeBSD alpha on it, but > > don't want to duplicate that on another machine just to netboot the > > thing to install the bootblocks. > > > > Comments? > > You don't need to duplicate the whole thing, just the kernel. The > kernel you netboot will use the local disk as its root. Heck, I don't > even know how to make FreeBSD/alpha use an nfs root these days.. One day soon, I will force myself to write/port the root detection code. If anyone beats me to it of course, that would be great... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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