5.2-BETA issues

[Bernd Walter]

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 12:56:02PM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> At 12:11 PM 7/12/2003, Bernd Walter sent this up the stick:
> >On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 11:54:10AM +1100, Rob B wrote:
> >> Will there be floppies built for 5.2-BETA (or 5.2-RELEASE for that 
> >matter)?
> >
> >There will be no more floppies because of size issues.
> 
> bugger :(    I don't suppose that FreeBSD will ever suport dd-ing whatever 
> file will be used to boot from to swap space in the same way that Open- and 
> NetBSD do?  At least this way there won't be so much of a size restriction 
> on that file.

You can dd an ISO image to any disk type media on alpha.
Unlike PCs they don't make a difference between CD, HDD, FDD, ...
drives.
But alphas don't support booting from a partition like suns do.
If NetBSD/OpenBSD supports it then they need to have selection
code in the bootsector.

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