Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:52:22 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <dev-null@NUXI.com> To: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021101225222.GA12071@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20021101151718.U7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net> References: <15810.64745.425793.33748@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20021101151718.U7968-100000@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net>
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On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 03:37:29PM -0700, Fred Clift wrote: > I'm not totally familiar with the boot-system and how install floppies are > put together, but could many of the drivers be loaded as modules from > another floppy? They already are. Seriously, unless you are prepared to do a 'cd /usr/src/release ; make release', and hack on this; you shouldn't be speaking up. > > > Are there other options? > > Netbooting. > > So how does netbooting work on alphas? Is there somewhere I can go read > about it? boot <network_device> boot ewa0 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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