Date: 03 May 1999 14:24:57 +0200 From: Martin Ostermann <ost@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, grog@lemis.com, ks@hirvi.net, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 3.1 on a Multia box Message-ID: <43emky5oiu.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Mon, 3 May 1999 09:44:04 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905030941410.555-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Mon, 3 May 1999 09:44:04 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said: > It would be really nice to have a bootable CD but I don't know exactly > what is required for the alpha (I don't have a CD writer either..). I > think NetBSD can do this so it shouldn't be hard to track down what is > needed. I don't now about official specs, but in Linux/Alpha the 'isomarkboot' program contained in the 'aboot' package allows it to make SRM bootable CDs. It allows to mark any file in an existing ISO9660 image as the program to boot. In Linux this is usually used to load the 'aboot' loader from CD. I believe there's nothing Linux specific to it. Beware, the program isn't 32 bit clean, i.e. it assumes sizeof(long)=8. HTH, Martin -- Martin Ostermann | mailto:ost+sig0@comnets.rwth-aachen.de Communication Networks | http://www.comnets.rwth-aachen.de/~ost Aachen University of Technology | phone: ++49/241/807917 Germany | fax: ++49/241/8890378 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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