From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 10:44:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E1537B404; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3420643F93; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h6THisLW001341; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h6THirKm001340; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:53 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:44:53 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Message-ID: <20030729174453.GA1201@dragon.nuxi.com> Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , Wilko Bulte , Ruslan Ermilov , Scott Long , Wilko Bulte , Marcel Moolenaar , alpha@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.1-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: Scott Long cc: Marcel Moolenaar cc: Ruslan Ermilov cc: Wilko Bulte cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:45:00 -0000 [ Reply-to: set back to list ] 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. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)