From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 11 12:24:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EA2216A4CE for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:24:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from pc5.i.0x5.de (reverse-213-146-113-119.dialin.kamp-dsl.de [213.146.113.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29E3743D58 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:24:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nicolas@dauerreden.de) Received: from pc5.i.0x5.de (nicolas@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pc5.i.0x5.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id i0BKOcR7056793 for ; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:24:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nicolas@pc5.i.0x5.de) Received: (from nicolas@localhost) by pc5.i.0x5.de (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id i0BKOc43056792 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:24:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from nicolas) Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 21:24:38 +0100 From: Nicolas Rachinsky To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040111202438.GA55331@pc5.i.0x5.de> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> <400108FC.9010008@iconoplex.co.uk> <200401110048.52747.wes@softweyr.com> <40011237.3000409@iconoplex.co.uk> <20040111092746.GA836@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040111190240.GA28161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040111190240.GA28161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> X-Powered-by: FreeBSD X-Homepage: http://www.rachinsky.de X-PGP-Keyid: C11ABC0E X-PGP-Fingerprint: 19DB 8392 8FE0 814A 7362 EEBD A53B 526A C11A BC0E X-PGP-Key: http://www.rachinsky.de/nicolas/nicolas_rachinsky.asc X-SECURITY: Never trust a running system User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1i Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2004 20:24:43 -0000 * Brooks Davis [2004-01-11 11:02 -0800]: > If you could make this work such that you just stuffed GENERIC and the > mfsroot onto however many floppies it takes, I think that would almost > certaintly solve re's problems with floppies (i.e. if all they had to do > when the kernel/mfsroot got too big was to bump a NUMFLOPPIES > variable.) Sure that would suck for the floppy users, but that would > put the pain in the place where it's most likely to cause someone to > come up with some better. > > Now, who wants to give this a try? OK, I tried now the following: I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the kernel and mfsroot to another floppy and added two appropriate splitfiles. Afterwards booting from these four disks worked fine. disk1: /boot /kernel.gz.split /kernel.gzaa "Message from libstand" disk2: /kernel.gzab "Message from loader.rc" disk3: /mfsroot.gz.split /mfsroot.gzaa "Message from libstand" disk4: /mfsroot.gzab I don't know the release build process, so I don't know how much effort is neccessary to create such floppies, but the loader seems to have all features needed to use such disks. Nicolas