From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 19 16:39: 9 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3636937B401; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:39:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp (watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp [133.80.152.80]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AF343EE6; Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:39:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by watery.cc.kogakuin.ac.jp (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBK0ctnq024660; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:38:55 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from nyan@jp.FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 09:38:47 +0900 (JST) Message-Id: <20021220.093847.74740541.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 From: Takahashi Yoshihiro In-Reply-To: References: <20021219002636.GA99816@regency.nsu.ru> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article John Baldwin 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message