Re: Local disk boot HOWTO

[alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)]

> My suggestion is to attack the ext2fs disk to a Linux/i386 machine,
> build the root filesystem etc. on it, then back on the Indy use it
> for booting.  Linux is so smart that it handles the MSDOG partitions
> on the disk created that way correctly and I store my kernel on the
> IRIX / anyway.

Another approach is to create a linux fs the right size for your root
on another ext2fs supporting host (ie linux,os/2, win95,macos ;))
and gzip the actual file system, then people can bootstrap it quite
easily under irix by just gunzipping to the _right_ ;) raw device

Alan