Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:23:43 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030729192343.GB66399@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20030722081738.GB7811@sunbay.com> <20030729095436.GB7617@sunbay.com> <20030729173848.GE4940@freebie.xs4all.nl>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. > A similar technique could be used on sparc64, as was explained by Jake. That's the whole reason why boot.flp is still created on sparc64. > I'm getting comments that miniinst.iso is too big. Which I buy. > Sure. > I also get comments that only ISOs aka mandatory CDboot is not > acceptable. > Sure. We need to provide the loss of functionality. Please see my other reply to an earlier message in this same thread, which has more appropriate context for this. > Other than that I think the patch does what you intend it to do. > Thanks, it sure does. :-) But does that also mean that you'd feel comfortable if I committed it now? Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/Jsm/Ukv4P6juNwoRApIuAJ9KCpKcpaB0yF6aULgekpmukcFoOACdEZUV 1qmG1BaWbmqywlYAcgG98b8= =Mj0T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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