GigaRouter (Was Re: Cisco as Big Brother))

Mon Oct 21 09:13:40 UTC 1996

On Sat, 19 Oct 96 15:24:10 PDT 
 Rob Liebschutz <rob at 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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