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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA6301 ; Thu, 07 Jan 93 19:02:52 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!paladin.american.edu!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!newsserver.jvnc.net!newsserver.technet.sg!ntuix!ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg!othman From: othman@ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg (othman (EEE/Div 4)) Subject: Re: [386bsd] The install program (again) Message-ID: <1993Jan9.012547.15349@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg> Sender: news@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: ntrc25.ntrc.ntu.ac.sg Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] References: <1ijc9dINNg17@bach.mentor.dk> Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 01:25:47 GMT Lines: 44 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. -- Othman bin Ahmad, School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 2263. Internet Email: eoahmad@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg Bitnet Email: eoahmad@ntuvax.bitnet