Floppies for ALPHA

[Ruslan Ermilov]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 10:11:09PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 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.
> 
Don't you think that this should be an official way to install
FreeBSD on Alpha?  :-)


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