Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:27:43 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Cc: mjacob@feral.com, gallatin@cs.duke.edu, freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ISP firmware compiled in as a default.... Message-ID: <199912052227.XAA15055@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199912050356.TAA17391@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> from Jason Thorpe at "Dec 4, 1999 7:56:44 pm"
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As Jason Thorpe wrote ... > On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 22:42:57 +0100 (CET) > Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> wrote: > > > Don't shoot me: the right thing to do is to make it possible to boot > > FreeBSD/alpha from a CDROM. With or without Qlogic firmware FreeBSD/alpha > > is quickly getting too big to be really practical as far as floppy booting > > goes. NetBSD can do CDROM booting, but I don't really understand the > > issues around CDROM bootability. Having fixed the size problem the extra > > NetBSD can also boot a kernel split across multiple floppies. Our > libsa `ustarfs' is pretty cool: > > nbftp:thorpej 15$ ls -l > total 6256 > 1456 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 1474560 Dec 4 19:05 disk1of2 > 816 -rw-r--r-- 1 thorpej netbsd 819200 Dec 4 19:05 disk2of2 > > ...that's a NetBSD/alpha install floppy set. Neat. One learns something new everyday :) I had used NetBSD install from a CDR before. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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