RE: Hang on Reboot - Installing the OpenBSD 3.1 MBR - Complete Instructions

i'm referring to those of us - most of us - that load our os images onto =
flash via ide-to-cf or usb flash writers from standard pcs

-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Yerkes [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2002 12:40 PM
To: Justin Honold
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
Subject: Re: Hang on Reboot - Installing the OpenBSD 3.1 MBR - Complete
Instructions


This "floppy" of which you speak?  Is this that old technology
from the 70's?  I'm not sure I'm familiar with it :)

I do know that the boxes I have have no floppy drives.  Some
have no drives at all.  The House PC (the 233/K5 bought to
serve NFS for < $200 when I measured power consumption of the
SGI, the SPARCs and others) has large hard drives, a CD and
no floppy (I needed the space for a smart card reader).

Oh, and if I use DOS, don't I have to acquiesce to an MS EULA
that means I give up massive rights on many of my machines?

In short: floppy drives don't exist on all AMD/Intel machines,
esp. embedded ones.

Quoting Justin Honold ([email protected]):
> isn't it a little easier to boot with a dos disk and type 'fdisk =
/mbr'?
>=20
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Simmons [mailto:[email protected]]
...
> Guys - Please add this to the emBSD doc section or someplace so that =
those
> wanting to RTFM, can actually have a M to read!?
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>=20
> Title:  How to Update the Soekris net4501 to the OpenBSD 3.1 Boot =
Loader
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