Floppies for ALPHA

[David O'Brien]

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).

Anywhere :-)
Mostly, you would "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1" ; disklabel da1 auto ;
disklable -e da1 #create 'a' partition# ; dd if=bootable.img of=/dev/da1a

On sparc, you can easily boot from any partition, so you can dd it to a
swap partition and do 'boot disk1:b'.