Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 22:56:52 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <20030730205652.GA72822@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20030730164907.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030729174453.GA1201@dragon.nuxi.com> <XFMail.20030730164907.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:49:07PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 29-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > > [ Reply-to: set back to list ] > > > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> > I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy > >> > support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare. If so, > >> > >> Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :) > >> > >> The question is if the way forward is a minimini.iso so a really > >> minimal ISO image (<< in size that miniinst.iso) or some other mechanism > >> like NetBSD or ancient SunOS 3.x used. Which, IIRC, was an image one dropped > >> in to the swap area of a disk and booted from. > > > > Why do we have to choose one? We should offer multiple ways (as we do > > today). The problem is not offering a small downloadable image to > > install an Alpha from -- but that 1.44MB is a ridiculous size constraint > > for that image. > > All we need is a truly miniiso. More of a boot-only iso. The same thing > could be stuck in a UFS image if people wish. Basically a /R/cdrom/boot > that contains just the /boot directory contents. People can then either > make an ISO from that or they can make a UFS image and dd it to a disk. > > This would be orthogonal to floppies, btw. Probably we would always > create the boot.iso area under /R and on archs that can use it, we can > create a UFS disk image that contains that system. On the other hand, > if dd'ing an actual ISO works fine, then we could just leave it at that. Given that I just put an extra disk in the 4100 I'll try that and report back. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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