Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 12:22:04 +0200 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: kientzle@acm.org, Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <200305051222.05046.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <3EB55F29.9080706@acm.org> References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com> <3EB55F29.9080706@acm.org>
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On Sun, 4 May 2003 20:42, Tim Kientzle wrote: > I suppose it's time to modify the boot loader to > load a single kernel image from multiple floppies. > That, at least, would end the continual release > breakage: the release builder could just create > as many floppy images as necessary. > > I remember the single-floppy installer; I foresee > the 10-floppy installer coming very quickly. ;-) Or use modules.. The vast majority of drivers are loadable as modules. It would be feasible to standardise the PCI ID tables of drivers and then generate a list from it which you can use to load modules for cards you find. Even now you can load arbitary kernel modules in sysinstall without too much hassle. (There is a sysinstall menu for it - I have a patch to this to read description files too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4 5D17 FDD5
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