From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 20:03:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01623 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:03:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01618 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:03:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id UAA02784; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 20:04:48 -0800 (PST) To: Wilko Bulte cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 02:37:55 +0100." <199812050137.CAA04929@yedi.iaf.nl> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 20:04:48 -0800 Message-ID: <2780.912830688@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. :) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message