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On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:59:56AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:31:55AM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 01:33:32PM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > > On 2003-Jul-30 22:11:09 +0200, Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > [dd the install image onto a HDD]
> > > >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.
> > > 
> > > I also had to do it to bootstrap my Multia - no floppy drive or CD-ROM
> > > and the FreeBSD netboot is incompatible with the Multia SRM.
> > 
> > Must be multia specific - I netbooted a NoName.
> 
> SRM issue on Multia. See ftp://ftp.tcja.nl/pub/wilko for the latest SRM
> that does netboot Multia.

Multia's are crap that should be thrown in the trash.  Heck I can't even
give away Miata's.  The next person that tries to download multia
firmware should instead send their shipping address.