Re: booting from HD, X server for 712 (King Gecko)?

thus Jochen Kunz spake:
> On Sun, May 29, 2005 at 11:15:33PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote:
> 
> 
>>okay, that's the usual way. but to go there, i still have to netboot the
>>machine, don't i?
> 
> Ether netboot or use a helper machine and dd(1) the LIF image containing
> installation kernel and RAM FS to the disk.

okay, the LIF is on releng as i saw :)

> 
>>(presuming that booting e.g. from cdrom is not possible yet.)
> 
> This is something I'll investigate in the near future.
> 
> 
>>so how stable does it perform in multiuser level?
> 
> I can't tell. Usually all I do is hack kernel, boot kernel, does /
> doesn't work, halt, hack kernel, boot kernel, ...
> IIRC chs@ has run a build on a hp700 machine before he checked in the
> hack to fix disk booting.

okay, then i'll give it a try as soon as i have some time to fiddle
around with it ;)

> 
>>perhaps it may give a nice little file and mail server ;)
> 
> A perfect appliance: small, low power and noise.

yes, the data sheets say that it has a 110watt maximum input (!) PSU and
normally the machine runs on approx. 30watt (including one HD). that's
pretty cool. but not as cool as my Amiga 1200 with 040/40 which used to
be my NetBSD imap server for nearly a year :D

thanks & i'll put a line on my experiences ASAP,

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