Floppies for ALPHA

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:48:30PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:17:38PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:07:31PM +0200, Bernd Walter wrote:
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 08:54:12PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:54:14PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > > 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).
> > > 
> > > The dd the ISO to HDD.
> > 
> > Where do you start the dd from then? (I agree, the non-ISO fs image
> > suffers from the same problem).
> 
> If you want do download something to bootstrap you need a machine with
> network service and the capability to write data to a bootable media.
> And we still have a large selection of possible media: CD, CDR, HDD,
> MO, ZIP, Ethernet, ...
> If you can't - then you have to buy a bootable media - usually a CD.
> I see no alternative to the problem and it's nothing new.
> Maybe David knows one - I failed to understand his last argument.
> Possibly I have to take one of my sun3 and install SunOS to understand.

Well, I have done something like this once by pulling a StorageWorks
SBB disk from a machine where I dd-ed an OS ontop of it and then put
that disk in another machine to boot it.

So it can be done.

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