From 77362928d3b304b02ea5229b5f4d6f02c9bd737f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Todd C. Miller" Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 04:30:35 +0000 Subject: Talk about CD-ROM booting --- distrib/notes/alpha/xfer | 14 ++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'distrib/notes') diff --git a/distrib/notes/alpha/xfer b/distrib/notes/alpha/xfer index 9cded002730..c53d4e10a98 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/alpha/xfer +++ b/distrib/notes/alpha/xfer @@ -7,8 +7,18 @@ Installation is supported from several media types, including: FTP HTTP -The first thing you will need to do is create a bootable disk. -This may be a floppy or a hard disk (floppy is simplest). +If you have the OpenBSD CD-ROM distribution (and a CD-ROM drive) +you can boot from it. Otherwise, you will need to create a bootable +disk. This may be a floppy or a hard disk (floppy is simplest). + +To boot from CD-ROM: + + At the SRM console enter "show device" to find the name of your + CD-ROM drive (should be pka*), then insert the OpenBSD/alpha CD + and enter "boot DEVICE" where DEVICE is the pka device. If this + does not work, you'll have to create a boot floppy or bootable + hard disk; follow the directions below. (A boot floppy image + is included on the CD-ROM as 2.1/alpha/floppy.fs.) If you have a floppy drive on your alpha: -- cgit v1.2.3