From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 20 20:28:10 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F343C16A4CE for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:28:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E608E43D1D for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 20:28:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id 5974E307AD; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:28:08 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 5A2E51D1DAF; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:27:57 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16397.65485.248197.944081@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:27:57 -0500 To: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <200401211033.54893.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> References: <200401082334.i08NYMx86020@thistle.bogs.org> <200401091404.34083.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <16397.14213.159522.188280@canoe.dclg.ca> <200401211033.54893.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: hackers@freebsd.org cc: Greg Shenaut cc: David Gilbert Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 04:28:10 -0000 >>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel O'Connor writes: Daniel> True.. Although I believe the loader could do it just as well Daniel> and it's already imported :) Daniel> (It uses the BIOS to read the kernel, and groks PXE, although Daniel> I am hazy on the specifics) I think the loader understands PXE well and understands certain BIOS things well. I mentioned FreeDOS since it would understand some CDROM nuances well. AFAIK, the loader understood CDROMs to the extent that they emulated a floppy of some sort. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================