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author | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-10-09 09:18:49 +0000 |
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committer | jkh <jkh@FreeBSD.org> | 1998-10-09 09:18:49 +0000 |
commit | 17e222060d5d55f16a21f1a940e17a88f01e2100 (patch) | |
tree | c94aade73f16874954241c163a16fb71c33bbd90 /release | |
parent | 15ba1628766976a754c551cec6abb07cf712b42f (diff) | |
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Adjust documentation to note the 3 boot images available now.
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diff --git a/release/README.TXT b/release/README.TXT index 53fd6c8..2d3e9a4 100644 --- a/release/README.TXT +++ b/release/README.TXT @@ -1,9 +1,33 @@ For a normal CDROM or network installation, all you need to copy onto an actual floppy from this directory is the boot.flp image (for 1.44MB floppies). -NOTE: These images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them to -a DOS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them to the -floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX. +If you're on the ALPHA then the boot.flp image is probably larger +than any kind of floppy you have available and you will need to +either netboot it, load it from some other type of media (such +as a jaz drive) or use the kern.flp image described below. + +This release still uses only one installation floppy, the boot.flp +image. For convenience (and for the DEC ALPHA architecture, on which +binaries are quite a bit larger), however, we also provide the +functionality of boot.flp now "decoupled" into a kern.flp image, +which contains just the boot kernel, and mfsroot.gz, which contains +the compressed MFS root image that is normally stored as part of +the kernel itself on the boot.flp image. This allows you to boot +from kern.flp, which will fit on a 1.44MB floppy even on the alpha, +and then load mfsroot.gz from a 2nd floppy. This also allows you +to easily make your own boot or MFS floppies should you need to customize +some aspect of the installation process. As long as the kernel is compiled +with ``options MFS'' and ``options MFS_ROOT'', it will properly +boot an mfsroot.gz image when run. The mfsroot.gz image is simply +a gzip'd filesystem image, something which can be made rather +easily using vnconfig(8). If none of this makes any sense to you, +don't worry about it - just use the boot.flp image as always; nothing +has changed there. + + +NOTE: The *.flp images are NOT DOS files! You cannot simply copy them +to a DOS or UFS floppy as regular files, you need to *image* copy them +to the floppy with fdimage.exe under DOS or `dd' under UNIX. For example: @@ -31,3 +55,6 @@ or work well, depending on your hardware and operating system environment (different versions of UNIX have totally different names for the floppy drive - neat, huh? :-). + +The only image which is copied onto a floppy as an ordinary file is +mfsroot.gz, should you actually be using that image for something. |