Floppies for ALPHA

[Terry Lambert]

Wilko Bulte 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).

People who load from tape because they don't have Toshiba 3401B
SCSI CDROM's, DEC-supplies SCSI CDROM's, or third party CDROM's
that support 1K sector reads... 8-).

Also, it's easier if you cross-build and then locally attach
the drive and dd the image to it, than if you have to cross-build
an entire release, burn a coaster, and then load the coaster on
the CDROM drive you have to install, only to find out that it's,
well, a coaster instead of a good ISO image.  8-) 8-).

It's also easier, in my experience, to do the MSDOS disk label
that the machine likes to see out there from an x86 box, instead
of trying to use Alpha-native tools (YMMV).

-- Terry