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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6191 ; Tue, 05 Jan 93 19:02:53 EST Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!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