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Date:      Thu, 8 Aug 2002 20:55:35 +0200 (SAT)
From:      John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za>
To:        sobomax@FreeBSD.org (Maxim Sobolev)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases
Message-ID:  <200208081855.g78ItZ966903@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <3D52BC9E.137D7B73@FreeBSD.org> from Maxim Sobolev at "Aug 8, 2002 09:46:54 pm"

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> 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
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John Hay -- John.Hay@icomtek.csir.co.za / jhay@FreeBSD.org

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