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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!dkuug!mentor.dk!not-for-mail
- From: tm@mentor.dk (Tonny Madsen)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: [386bsd] The install program (again)
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 08:59:40 +0100
- Organization: Mentor Informatik, Denmark
- Lines: 40
- Message-ID: <1ijc9dINNg17@bach.mentor.dk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: bach.mentor.dk
- Keywords: install tiny bsd 386bsd
-
- I have just been asked to install 386bsd on 30+ machines, and would
- like some advise on this.
-
- My idea is to make a 386bsd partition, that is as small as possible,
- and then NFS mount everything else from a fast server (probably a
- DEC/5000). In theory this partition can be as small as 2-3 Mb (plus
- swap!), but it doesn't necessarily have to be this small :->
-
- To do this I would like to have a single disk, like the tiny 386bsd
- boot disk, that a potential user can use to make his local 386bsd
- environment. And for this I need something like the install program
- from the tiny 386bsd boot disk. I haven't been able to find this
- program in my (full) distribution, and from a posting just before
- christmas I understand this program isn't in the public domain. The
- questions then is:
-
- - can I get the sources for the install program anyhow? :-> :->
-
- - does anybody have an install-like program I can use? :->
-
- - does anybody have some of the code fragments, that is needed to get
- the disk geometry from the CMOS, make the initial disk label, and
- change the master boot block to use 386bsd or one of the multiple OS
- booters, that are available? :-|
-
- - does anybody know how to get the disk geometry from the CMOS? :-<
-
- Thanks in advance
-
- -- tonny
-
- -----
- Tonny Madsen, Mentor Informatik a/s, Fredens Torv 6, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark
- telephone: +45 86 20 13 33 telefax : +45 86 13 01 33
- e-mail : tm@mentor.dk
- --
- -----
- Tonny Madsen, Mentor Informatik a/s, Fredens Torv 6, DK-8000 Arhus C, Denmark
- telephone: +45 86 20 13 33 telefax : +45 86 13 01 33
- e-mail : tm@mentor.dk
-