From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 8 07:02:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA02850 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 07:02:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from o2.cs.rpi.edu (o2.cs.rpi.edu [128.113.96.156]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA02845 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 07:02:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from crossd@o2.cs.rpi.edu) Received: from localhost (crossd@localhost) by o2.cs.rpi.edu (980427.SGI.8.8.8/980728.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id KAA66020; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:01:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 10:01:30 -0500 From: "David E. Cross" To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mikael Karpberg , Mike Smith , obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space In-Reply-To: <85082.913104164@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Probably... If all BIOSes that handle CDROM booting can handle that... > > Which is as good a time as any to make a *practical* suggestion and > get us moving back in the direction of progress, I think. :-) > > Let's postpone this discussion for another 15 days or so, until Mike > can return (to the US) from the Australian location he's currently > occupying. He and I will look over his spec and see if we can't hack > mkisofs into using a 10MB image rather than the 1.44MB image it uses My understanding of this has been that the BIOS treats the CDROM as a virtual floppy drive for the purposes of booting off of it (which matches my experience of specifying a floppy disk image as the boot file when using mkisofs, and having that work). I think a perhaps better solution, and more usefull to a wider variety of people would be to have a bootdisk that would then mount its root filesystem off of the CDROM in a conventional manor, and make that the 'bootfile' on the CDROM. So a person with a BIOS that cannot boot off of CDROM (they still exist in great numbers), would place the CD in the drive, have the CDboot floppy, and still be in buisness. (This of course does not address those w/o a CDROM). -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message