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Date:      Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:48:04 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Cc:        cvs-src@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, src-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile
Message-ID:  <200601311548.06950.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060131203737.GA10866@freebie.xs4all.nl>
References:  <200601301424.k0UEOVnw098992@repoman.freebsd.org> <200601311345.20961.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060131203737.GA10866@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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On Tuesday 31 January 2006 15:37, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 01:45:17PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote..
>
> > On Monday 30 January 2006 11:15, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 09:30:02AM -0500, Ken Smith wrote..
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 14:24 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:
> > > > > kensmith    2006-01-30 14:24:31 UTC
> > > > >
> > > > >   FreeBSD src repository
> > > > >
> > > > >   Modified files:
> > > > >     release              Makefile
> > > > >   Log:
> > > > >   Enable splitting up the MFSROOT floppy on amd64, the contents now
> > > > > overflow one floppy's worth of space.
> > > > >
> > > > >   Revision  Changes    Path
> > > > >   1.898     +1 -0      src/release/Makefile
> > > >
> > > > Note: I'm guilty of a pretty big crime here.  I can't locate my USB
> > > > floppy drive at the moment and don't have any amd64 machines with
> > > > "real" floppy drives in them.  I'll go buy another USB floppy drive
> > > > tonight and test that the resulting floppies actually work.
> > > >
> > > > But we're overflowing the MFSROOT floppy and release builds on amd64
> > > > were broken as a result.  If this commit does somehow result in
> > > > busted floppies we need to fix other stuff to make it work, unless we
> > > > somehow make what's needed in the MFSROOT floppy smaller we need
> > > > split-floppies to work...
> > > >
> > > > I'll test ASAP regardless.
> > >
> > > Or give up on floppies altogether..
> >
> > Alpha uses split mfsroot floppies, so the amd64 ones should work fine. 
> > The
>
> I know :)  But who tests this stuff these days?  It proves difficult enough
> to have people test CD images, let alone floppies.  Ah well, lets not
> digress.

I did when I first built them. :)

-- 
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