Date: 03 May 1999 15:01:55 +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: <43btg25mt8.fsf@comnets.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: Doug Rabson's message of "Mon, 3 May 1999 13:52:33 %2B0100 (BST)" References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905031350440.67216-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
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On Mon, 3 May 1999 13:52:33 +0100 (BST), Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> said: >> 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. > It sounds pretty easy to do but like I said, I don't have a CD writer. If > one should unexpectedly appear on my doorstep, I could make it work I > expect. You won't need a CD writer for testing, a spare SCSI disk with about 700MB capacity or more would be just fine. It doesn't matter to SRM whether the image is on a CD or on a hard disk... 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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