Floppies for ALPHA

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:49PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:23:43PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do.
> > > 
> > Thanks, it sure does.  :-)
> > But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed
> > it now?
> 
> Not as posted.  As I mentioned, the patch does too much.  Can you post a
> new patch that produces a single 8MB MFSBOOT "floppy" image?
> 
MFSBOOT?  This is something new.  :-)

I guess you mean the current boot.flp by it, right?  If yes,
I can't see a point in having it, so please explain.  How it
could be used?

For sparc64, boot.flp is useful, beause "you can dd it to a disk
from solaris and then boot off it to install", according to
Jake.  Can the same be made on Alpha?  Otherwise, I don't see
a point in having it.

The idea is to have a miniboot.iso that just resembles the
contents of the boot.flp, but can be used to boot off the
CD-ROM (and then do an FTP installation, for example).


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov		Sysadmin and DBA,
ru at sunbay.com		Sunbay Software Ltd,
ru at FreeBSD.org		FreeBSD committer
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