From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jul 19 03:16:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA27164 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:16:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [192.109.159.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA27099 for ; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:16:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id MAA16729 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:15:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA21041; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:15:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980719121537.A20790@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 12:15:37 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make release fails because kernel is too large References: <199807190137.DAA22125@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199807190137.DAA22125@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>; from Oliver Fromme on Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 03:37:53AM +0200 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jul 19, 1998 at 03:37:53AM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: > I have to agree with Jordan's "no". > > Only a few (modern) BIOS versions are able to read and boot > from non-standard floppy formats (> 18 sectors/track). > Many older BIOS versions don't support this. > > As far as Win95 floppies are concerned: The boot floppy has > a standard 1440 kb format, but the remaining floppies have > non-standard formats. This is safe, because they're read by > Microsoft's own code, not by the BIOS. > > If the FreeBSD install floppy is split into two, the second > one could be 1680 kb, provided that FreeBSD's own floppy > driver is used. (1720 kb is a bad idea anyway, because it > requires > 80 tracks, which can be a problem with certain > no-name floppies or disk drives.) Just my thoughts. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message