Floppies for ALPHA

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:54:14PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:40:52AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:59:46AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:

[.. bickering deleted ]

> > you can't figure out the functionality I'm talking about please go find
> > an old Sun3 or Sun4c machine and install SunOS.
> > 
> I'm just trying to understand how a file system image can be
> useful on Alpha.  When I asked a similar question for sparc64,
> the answer was:
> 
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 11:57:58AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote:
> >
> > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a disk
> > from solaris and then boot off it to install.  I'm happy with having
> > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it an
> > option.
> >
> > Jake
> 
> Something along these lines for Alpha?

Yes, exactly.

> Even if it does work for Alpha too (please tell me how), the

NetBSD does something like that.

> miniboot.iso is still much more useful, as it allows one to install

I like it better too. But some people argue that not having to write
the ISO on CDR is a good thing(TM).

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