From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 18:43:29 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3A1137B401; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8110C43F93; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6U1hQLW006522; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6U1hQJg006521; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:43:26 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Ruslan Ermilov Message-ID: <20030730014325.GA6459@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Ruslan Ermilov , Wilko Bulte , Scott Long , Wilko Bulte , Marcel Moolenaar , Poul-Henning Kamp , alpha@FreeBSD.org References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> <20030729195449.GA3614@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030729202150.GD66399@sunbay.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Marcel Moolenaar cc: Poul-Henning Kamp cc: Scott Long cc: alpha@FreeBSD.org cc: Wilko Bulte Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:43:30 -0000 On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 11:21:50PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > 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. > > > > > > > Thanks, it sure does. :-) > > > But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed > > > it now? > > > > 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? > > > 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 > from solaris and then boot off it to install", according to > Jake. Can the same be made on Alpha? Yes it can. MFSROOT(BOOT) what ever you want to call it. I.e., / is not the hard disk you want to install on -- thus it has to be RAM disk so the real hard disk device isn't opened. > 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). NO! The idea is to have an image that has / as a memory file system, that has a full GENERIC kernel *and* has a full set of modules *and* has sysinstall as /sbin/init. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)