From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Nov 4 8:40:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5483D37B421 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:40:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail17.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E527543E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:40:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9150 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2002 16:40:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail17.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 4 Nov 2002 16:40:39 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA4GeYn5045145; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:40:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC696E8.000075.91724@ns.interchange.ca> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:40:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Michael Richards Subject: Re: Floppy boot... Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 04-Nov-2002 Michael Richards wrote: > A CD boot may be a viable option. I think I'll try to find some time > to patch up the bootloader to be able to read the kernel off 2 disks. > This will make a 3 disk install, but oh well, that's better than > nothing isn't it? We already have a 3 disk install. Actually though, I think someone (sobomax@?) did implement functionality in the loader in the form of a splitfs that lets a file be split across multiple floppies. If someone wanted to make that work that would sound good to me. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message