From owner-cvs-all Sun Jul 16 15:30:56 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from palrel3.hp.com (palrel3.hp.com [156.153.255.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BA6237B54B; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:30:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel3.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE951DE; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:30:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (p1000180.nsr.hp.com [15.109.0.180]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id PAA03835; Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:30:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <39723797.60F1FA74@cup.hp.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 15:30:47 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: Peter Wemm , "David O'Brien" , Kris Kennaway , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release/scripts dokern.sh References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > > I've already suggested that we could use a 3rd floppy for alpha- to contain > > > modules (like firmware). > > > > We might consider doing this for the x86 as well. ie: put all the > > obscure-but-useable-for-install drivers on a drivers disk. We might be able > > to trim a bit more out of the BOOTMFS kernel if we did that too. > > Yup. This was the idea also. Now that we have a fairly studly modules system, > this is sort of the right thing to do. What about (down)loading kernel modules from the installation medium? My guess is that the 3rd floppy will become full is well in the (near?) future... -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message