Subject: Re: one stop towards install CDs
To: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 02/16/2006 09:48:14
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 07:34:58PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
>> What about being able to eject the CD after booting?
>> I found it useful for g4u, and would prefer to have that available.
>
> For install purposes, you don't need to eject; the first CD or DVD
> should be enough to do a basic install. If more CDs/DVDs are needed,
> the system can be rebooted after the first CD/DVD, and the install
> can continue after a boot from the hard drive.
>
> It's always possible to provide a ramdisk kernel on the CD which
> can be booted if you want to.
The other variant on this is to use kloader(4) to directly boot a
kernel from the installed system once you get that far...
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