From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Nov 6 6:48:39 2002 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 5258A37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:48:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1CAB43E7B for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 06:48:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2151 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2002 14:48:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 6 Nov 2002 14:48:37 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (laptop.baldwin.cx [192.168.0.4]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA6EmVn5052219; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 09:48:31 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A9@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 09:48:32 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: "Thyer, Matthew" Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Cc: "Wilkinson, Alex" , gallatin@cs.duke.edu, fclift@verio.net, alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 05-Nov-2002 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > On 06-Nov-2002 Baldwin, John wrote: >> This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is >> that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the >> loader. > > Last I checked, the GENERIC kernel still had many network drivers. > > Wouldn't it be possible to put all of those modules on another floppy ? > > Dont worry about implementing interactive module loading for now.... we could just load > them all from the additional floppy under control of the loader. *sigh* THIS IS WHAT WE DO ALREADY. PLEASE LOOK AT WHAT WE DO NOW. (getting tired of saying the same thing over and over and over) -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message