Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:04:48 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <2780.912830688@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 02:37:55 %2B0100." <199812050137.CAA04929@yedi.iaf.nl>
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> Eventually with the growing hardware support we would be back at a
> 2 floppy boot set it seems. Not a problem in my opinion, but is there a
> general strategy or is it simply 'waiting for the wall'?
We're already back there, to be perfectly honest. Even though it
wasn't actually documented as such (note to self: document this before
3.0.1), in the 3.0-RELEASE we did indeed hit the wall quite firmly and
none of the following:
Any EISA bus machine requiring an EISA peripheral for installation.
Any machine without an FPU.
IDE floppies.
Adaptec 1542.
Mitsumi CDROM.
Matsushita/Panasonic CDROM.
Sony (CDU-xx) CDROM.
Wangtek QIC tape.
Floppy tape.
Can be used by boot.flp in actually installing the system. For this,
kern.flp is the only option. As time goes on I also expect this list
to grow (and be documented :) into pretty much anything we deem "not
mainstream enough" to go onto boot.flp, leaving the non-mainstream
folks with the abject misery of a 2-floppy installation (said with
tongue-seriously-in-cheek since this has been a requirement for just
about everyone else for some time now). I know that "mainstream" is
also a pretty darn difficult target to hit but we'll just have to do
our best using whatever metrics are available. I certainly want
*most* people to be able to continue using boot.flp for as long as
space permits. When a majority can no longer be thusly accommodated,
we'll just shrug and ditch it completely in favor of the 2(*)-floppy
solution.
- Jordan
(*) I hope it's only 2 by then. :)
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