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- From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4))
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] The install program (again)
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:25:47 GMT
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- Tonny Madsen (tm@mentor.dk) wrote:
- : 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 :->
-
- I believe you can run this on a floppy but my main problems now
- are the difficulty in NFS mounting.
-
- Good luck to you.
- :
- : 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? :-<
-
- ideconf will do what you wnat.
-
- sources for ideconf is only for dos C compilers.
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- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE,
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