From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 03:04:10 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC45737B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 03:04:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from octopus.com.au (octopus.com.au [61.8.3.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D42BB43FBD for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 03:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from duraid@octopus.com.au) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by octopus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D3FFD7ACB1; Sun, 4 May 2003 20:03:56 +1000 (EST) Received: by octopus.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1047) id 5C29FD7AB1A; Sun, 4 May 2003 20:03:56 +1000 (EST) Received: from octopus.com.au (m061-029.nv.iinet.net.au [203.217.61.29]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by octopus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10D7D7AB01; Sun, 4 May 2003 20:03:50 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <3EB4E58E.3070804@octopus.com.au> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 20:03:58 +1000 From: Duraid Madina User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <3EB3C118.6020203@octopus.com.au> <200305031817.16068.bsdterm@HotPOP.com> <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030503235911.GA64288@shall.anarcat.ath.cx> <3EB45D98.50106@octopus.com.au> <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030504023512.GA24882@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-31.9 required=7.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA version=2.53 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.53 (1.174.2.15-2003-03-30-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS new-20020517 cc: bsdterm@HotPOP.com Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 10:04:11 -0000 David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 10:23:52AM +1000, Duraid Madina wrote: > >>The fact that FreeBSD insists on fitting its kernel onto floppies has so >>far prevented me from installing it on my not terribly new hardware. > > How has FreeBSD prevented you from installing because we fit the kernel > on floppies? The snapshot server is basically wasting CPU cycles, and has been for a couple of weeks now. Support for my hard disk controllers has been checked in, but here I sit, waiting. Why? Because we fit the kernel on floppies. > Don't worry that won't happen -- AMD has committed to the current type of > BIOS and plans to NOT switch to EFI. You haven't used an EFI box yet, have you. ;) Duraid