From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 11:55:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D2C137B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:55:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5718543E70; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:55:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhay@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g78ItZ966903; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:55:35 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from jhay) From: John Hay Message-Id: <200208081855.g78ItZ966903@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases In-Reply-To: <3D52BC9E.137D7B73@FreeBSD.org> from Maxim Sobolev at "Aug 8, 2002 09:46:54 pm" To: sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:55:35 +0200 (SAT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Did you look at split images loading feature, which the loader(8) had > for quite some time now? My feeling is that you can do the same thing > but much easier, by just spliting out mfsroot over two or more > floppies. See > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libstand/splitfs.c for > details. But then everyone needs to boot with 3 floppies. With my way, we can hopefully select the optimum so that most people will only need 2 floppies, ie the most popular drivers should go on mfsroot.flp. John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message