From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 7 15:49:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA02916 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:49:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (ppp6.portal.net.au [202.12.71.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA02905 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00838; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 15:46:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199812072346.PAA00838@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Mikael Karpberg cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 02:48:59 +0100." <199812070148.CAA13594@ocean.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:46:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > But... we have 1.44 MB on the CD... Since the bios manages to read the > file, wouldn't there be a generic way that we could also read something > from the CD? So that we could make a floppy which does a call and reads a > 5 MB image from the CD, and unpacks the kernel with MFS from that, with > full drivers and a nice splash image, too. :-) > But, lemme guess: "Sorry... There's no way to fool the BIO to read the CD" ? Correct. However Daniel's point about emulating a harddisk is a good one; I checked my El Torito docco and discovered I was out of date. If we're going to go off the beaten track, we might as well do it properly. A 10M harddisk image is going to be a much better idea in that case. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message