From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 8 12:13:11 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 CB61E37B400 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:13:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 669A743E3B for ; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:13:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from relay.iptelecom.net.ua (alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua [212.9.224.15]) by alcatraz.iptelecom.net.ua (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA65481; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:13:00 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Received: from vircheck.ipcard.iptcom.net (ipcard.iptcom.net [212.9.224.5]) by relay.iptelecom.net.ua (8.12.4/8.12.4) with ESMTP id g78JCwBD065388; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:12:58 +0300 (EEST) Received: from vega.vega.com (h230.234.dialup.iptcom.net [212.9.234.230]) by vircheck.ipcard.iptcom.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g78JCsoQ055375; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:12:55 +0300 (EEST) Received: from FreeBSD.org (big_brother.vega.com [192.168.1.1]) by vega.vega.com (8.12.5/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g78JCrxg028836; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 22:12:53 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from sobomax@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <3D52C2DB.F81E78F6@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 22:13:31 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev Organization: Vega International Capital X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,uk,ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Hay Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases References: <200208081855.g78ItZ966903@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r 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 John Hay wrote: > > > 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. Both approaches have its own advantages and disadvantages. IMO, big disadvantage of your method is that user needs to know which drivers he really wants, which makes installation less fool-prof for novice users. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message