Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:11:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, msmith@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing boot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.01.9812062010030.448-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199812052048.VAA23459@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Doug Rabson wrote... > > On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Paul Richards wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Wilko Bulte [mailto:wilko@yedi.iaf.nl] > > > > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 1998 1:47 AM > > > > To: mike@smith.net.au > > > > Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com; dfr@nlsystems.com; freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; > > > > msmith@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > Subject: Re: installing boot? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I understand I need mfsroot.gz on a UFS formatted floppy. > > > > I'll try this > > > > tomorrow. Need some sleep & get rid of some surplus beer first ;-) > > > > > > I think the docs could do with some tweaking, it took me some time to > > > work out exactly what I was supposed to do with the mfsroot.gz as well. > > > > I think that mfsroot.gz should be put into a UFS formatted disk image. > > It would be much easier to just dd install.flp (or whatever) to a disk > > instead of trying to create a filesystem and copy mfsroot.gz into it. > > install.flp does not fit on a single floppy for FreeBSD/axp... Could use > a harddisk for this purpose but that is pretty awkward at best. I forget what is called install.flp in the existing build but I was thinking of two floppies, one with the kernel (kern.flp I guess) and one with the install filesystem. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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