Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:20:17 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812060720.XAA02870@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 02:19:14 PST." <19981205021914.C12672@nuxi.com>
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> > When a majority can no longer be thusly accommodated, we'll just shrug > > and ditch it completely in favor of the 2(*)-floppy solution. > > It is not that bad. I'm doing more and more boot off the CDROM installs. > I assume sysinstall + boot kernel can be quite large there. > Is the boot kernel there a full GENERIC kernel? No. The way that bootable CDROMs work is that the BIOS pretends that a 1.44MB region at the beginning of the CDROM is actually a 1.44MB floppy disk. I wouldn't mind finding the asshole responsible for this fiasco and doing something traumatic to their lower digestive tract with a petrol-powered Weed Eater. The only ways out of this are: - mandate a floppy in addition to the CDROM (sucks) - add CDROM drivers to the bootloader (ATAPI, SCSI for Adaptec and NCR at least) Both of these are painful. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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