From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 11:08:37 2003 Return-Path: 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 0CC3037B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 11:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B584443F93 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 11:08:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from localhost (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h44I8MIW088525; Mon, 5 May 2003 03:38:25 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Duraid Madina , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 20:08:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305042008.21708.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -0.7 () CARRIAGE_RETURNS,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_05_08,USER_AGENT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.16 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: bsdterm@HotPOP.com Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:08:37 -0000 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