Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 20:08:21 +0200 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: bsdterm@HotPOP.com Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <200305042008.21708.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au> References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003 12:03, Duraid Madina wrote: > > How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel > > on floppies? > > The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a > couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been > checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on > floppies. Load it after sysinstall starts? There is a 'Load KLD' menu where you can load drivers of a separate floppy disk. Of course that only works if the driver you need is a module but I would be pretty suprised if a new device driver didn't do that. If you want someone to send you a prebuilt .ko because you can't build it yourself I would be more than happy to do so. And as a counter point.. I have systems (which are _not_ old) that have SCSI CDR's and SCSI cards with no BIOS in them so they can't boot off CD yet I managed to install FreeBSD on them very successfully. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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