Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030729174453.GA1201@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy
> > support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare. If so,
>
> Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :)
>
> The question is if the way forward is a minimini.iso so a really
> minimal ISO image (<< in size that miniinst.iso) or some other mechanism
> like NetBSD or ancient SunOS 3.x used. Which, IIRC, was an image one dropped
> in to the swap area of a disk and booted from.
Why do we have to choose one? We should offer multiple ways (as we do
today). The problem is not offering a small downloadable image to
install an Alpha from -- but that 1.44MB is a ridiculous size constraint
for that image.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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