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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!sdd.hp.com!think.com!ames!sgi!rigden.wpd.sgi.com!rpw3 From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) Subject: SCSI-only systems Message-ID: <m9f8ss8@sgi.sgi.com> Sender: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1992 04:27:36 GMT Lines: 17 I may have done a slightly foolish thing. The system I just bought has *only* SCSI hard disk. At the current stage of the game (pre-0.1), is it even *possible* to bootstrap a system that has only SCSI disk? (Assume that one has ready network access to NFS servers.) That is, I'd like to boot up 5in/dist.fs on the "A" floppy, or maybe David Butler's 386bsd.5in.dist.0.0new.gdb.Z, and put everything else (sources, binaries) on an NFS-mounted file system, until I can recompile the kernel to add in the SCSI driver. Would this work? (1) Start a "biod"; (2) mount the remote system? If not, what else is needed? -Rob