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On Sat, 1 Nov 1997, Jonathan Stone wrote:

> Excuse me, but I genuinely don't understand.  What would a ``booter
> application'' that runs under SunOS 4.1.x on a single-disk system look
> like?  For Ultrix?  For VMS?  For HP-UX?  

Well, how about a kernel and a ramdisk image for each of these
architectures?  The CD liner notes would have instructions to:

	1. Insert CD
	2. Type (your system's boot PROM equivalent of)

		 boot cdrom /boot/arch/sun3/netbsd

This kernel would be configured to get it's root from a ramdisk image
(much as the i386 and alpha boot floppies do now) and boot without
touching the hard drive.  Then it would boot into an invitation to start
sysinst or drop to a shell.

- --
				Jim Wise
				jim.wise@turner.com

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