Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2002 11:40:35 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Michael Richards <michael@fastmail.ca> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Floppy boot... Message-ID: <XFMail.20021104114035.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC696E8.000075.91724@ns.interchange.ca>
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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 <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< 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
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