Subject: Re: About this MOP business..
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Mats O Jansson <maja@celsiustech.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/22/1997 14:33:35
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> Oh, somebody mentioned that there is a 64 kByte limit on the mop image
> size... this would be why, eg. Ultrix also uses a 2ndstage

There is a 64kb limitation in the bootblock for relocation of the code.
But the bootblock is a part of NetBSD. I have images of +1Mb that
can be mop loaded.

> loader. Anyway, I managed to mopboot, and nfsmount a root
> partition. It would be easily possible to distrubute a tar archive of
> a miniroot for net installation purposes, once the machines themselves
> are fully supported.
> 
> Regards,
> 	-is
> 

-moj

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