[5524] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Neil J. McRae)
Mon Oct 21 18:38:47 1996
To: Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com>
cc: Alexis Rosen <alexis@panix.com>, michael@memra.com (Michael Dillon),
nanog@merit.edu, neil@easynet.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 19 Oct 1996 15:24:10 PDT."
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From: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@easynet.net>
Reply-To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@easynet.net>
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 10:13:40 +0100
On Sat, 19 Oct 96 15:24:10 PDT
Rob Liebschutz <rob@rjl.com> alleged:
> Not really, the BSDI installation procedure does it with one floppy.
> The BSDI bootstrap knows how to load a gzipped kernel image. I've
> made modified boot disks from their installation procedure. I've
> never turned on NFS though, and admittedly it's all packed in there
> tight enough that every time I want to do something else I'm deleting
> one thing to add another. An 8mb flash card for $300 would be
> very nice if it worked.
>
Well if you're talking i386. For NetBSD/i386 work is being done to
make gzip'ed kernels boot at thi time.
Regards,
Neil.
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