Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:38:47 +0900 (JST) From: Takahashi Yoshihiro <nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: danfe@nsu.ru, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, nate@root.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile Message-ID: <20021220.093847.74740541.nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20021219124357.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20021219002636.GA99816@regency.nsu.ru> <XFMail.20021219124357.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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In article <XFMail.20021219124357.jhb@FreeBSD.org> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > AFAIK, 200K made it possible to fit pretty well on both 1.2M 5.25" DS/HD > > floppies (4 of them) and 1.44M 3.5" DS/HD (5 of them). Making chunks > > 1.44M would break ability to install from 1.2M diskettes. I'd rather > > prefer leave it as it was (200K). > > People are going to install FreeBSD using 5.25" floppies? Our > boot floppies don't fit on those disks, so you wouldn't be able > to boot in the first place. Secondly, you would need > 232 / 4 = 58 good floppies. :) When installing my alpha from CD, > having the bits broke up actually results in poorer performance. Old pc98 machines support up to only 1.232MB floppies, and that 1.232MB floppies are a different sector size (1024B/sec). So, we make 1.2MB boot floppies for these machines. --- TAKAHASHI Yoshihiro <nyan@FreeBSD.org> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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