>From: "John W. DeBoskey"
>Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:54:36 -0500 (EST)
> If you really want to make things easier for the beginner, why
>not provide a DOS boot program. Then you wouldn't even have to
>worry about boot floppies. Tell new folks to copy the boot program
>to the DOS partition and r
>Hang on a second... I think you might be putting words in my
> mouth... I'm not saying that the nfs boot floppy is the One True
> Boot Floppy. I see no reason why we can't have a netboot.flp and
> a dskboot.flp created.
The slicing that's being contemplated at the moment is actually
"install
hi,
Hang on a second... I think you might be putting words in my
mouth... I'm not saying that the nfs boot floppy is the One True
Boot Floppy. I see no reason why we can't have a netboot.flp and
a dskboot.flp created.
If you really want to make things easier for the beginner, why
not provi
>If I hop on my soapbox, I'd really like to see a single floppy
> network install which supports nfs(which I also re-enable on the
> normal boot.flp since it fits on the 2.88M image).
The problem is that there are too many people standing on too many
different soapboxes. Each and every one o
Well, FWIW, I've been modifying my local 'make release' to produce
a 2.88M boot floppy, which I then use as the boot image when I burn a
CD of the SNAP. Works like a champ.
Thus, the isofs creation is a straight run of the code in
examples/worm and cdrecord:
sh /usr/share/examples/worm/ma
Actually, about half a dozen. Lots More if you include LS-120 drives in the
list... But, the main point I'm driving at is to still be able to build
bootable CDs without too much playing...
-Brian
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Mike Smith wrote:
> > Mike Smith wrote:
> >
> > > > This sounds like booting/installing from CD-ROM is currently
> > > > impossible as well ???
> > >
> > > That's correct. We're looking at having to move to a harddisk
> > > emulation mode to get this back on track.
> >
> > Would a 2.88M virtual
> Mike Smith wrote:
>
> > > This sounds like booting/installing from CD-ROM is currently
> > > impossible as well ???
> >
> > That's correct. We're looking at having to move to a harddisk
> > emulation mode to get this back on track.
>
> Would a 2.88M virtual floppy for the CD-ROM boot image be
I think the 2.88MB suggestion was an alternative to going to a 'Hard Drive'
type solution for bootable CDROMs (from a jkh post earlier). Since most
bioses support 2.88MB floppies (regardless of if the hardware exists on the
person's machine), wouldn't it be possible to have the 'boot.flp' for a
> Wouldn't it be possible to use a 2.88MB boot image? Most of the documentation
> I've read states that this should be supportable on machines that understand
> 2.88MB floppies Or, have we outgrown that already?
How many systems have you seen with 2.88MB floppy drives?
--
\\ Sometimes you'r
Wouldn't it be possible to use a 2.88MB boot image? Most of the documentation
I've read states that this should be supportable on machines that understand
2.88MB floppies Or, have we outgrown that already?
-Brian
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Mike Smith wrote:
> > This sounds like booting/installing from CD-ROM is currently
> > impossible as well ???
>
> That's correct. We're looking at having to move to a harddisk
> emulation mode to get this back on track.
Would a 2.88M virtual floppy for the CD-ROM boot image be a quick fix, or is
I've been taking the last few days off, but I intend to get to
this this week and fix whatever's broken. Don't panic. :)
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies.
> > > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm
> On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies.
> > > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and
> > > make release
> > >
> > > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/
On Mon, Jan 18, 1999 at 09:52:26PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies.
> > I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and
> > make release
> >
> > Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/
> >
> > Fi
> Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies.
> I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and
> make release
>
> Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/
>
> First error message
> No /boot/loader
> Then the typical "boot banner"
Hi ! Bad news, make release still produces non bootable floppies.
I cvsupped yesterday evening at 8pm and did a make world and
make release
Now I tried the boot.flp image from the ftp subdir in /R/
First error message
No /boot/loader
Then the typical "boot banner"
2nd error messa
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