boot. Yes, NetBSD/alpha finally gets sysinst on all media types.
The new boot makes a single ramdisk which is then divided via ustarfs
onto a two-floppy set, and a second unified image for CD's, HD's, or
tapes is also created.
though it is gzip'ed; we want the first scan through the FS to open the file.
Print out the number of bytes free on disk 2. Label disk 2 with it's volume
number and tack on a bunch of label comments...date created, md5 of disk1 of
volume set...
the userland strings(1) to the binutils version. Well, crunchgen(8) links
all the stuff together ... can you say: "GPL pollution"?
If anyone knows a good reason to have strings(1) on an install disk, I can
resurrect a BSD-licensed strings. "Send me email". (ross@netbsd.org)
old alpha boot floppy, but uses the new libsa ustar FS instead of ffs
and loads in 1 minute instead of 3. (5 minutes in 1.3.2). Future work
will make use of the extra space, and also make a dual-floppy sysinst
boot out of this or another clone dir.
run diskless without having to netboot, which, besides being difficult,
isn't always possible on a particular firmware rev.
Also, this gives the tc machines a floppy that does something, although
they will get a proper install floppy "one of these days".
in its belly. This differs from the floppy kernel in that it uses the
sysinst installation tool (and thus requires more space; the ramdisk is
3M).
This is useful for netbooting and installing or for placing on a CD-ROM.
because it wants to use sysctl and sysctl is normally dynamically linked,
and it doesn't have the shared libs available when it wants to use it.
The right thing to do (if i want to propagate this hack) is to build a
statically-linked sysctl rather than copying the dynamically-linked one.
>add a little hack, to replace /etc/rc on the distribution disk image,
>to make life a little bit easier for people just starting out.
>(remounts root read-write, mounts /usr, etc.) includes instructions
>on how to get 'normal' /etc/rc as the default. does _not_ appear
>in the tar files.
