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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 23:52:23 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: floppies for alpha/DP2
Message-ID:  <20021107235223.A20948@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20021107101316.U4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>; from mjacob@feral.com on Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800
References:  <20021107100959.I4414-100000@wonky.feral.com> <20021107101316.U4414-100000@wonky.feral.com>

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On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:18:24AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Matthew Jacob wrote:
> 
> >
> > FYI
> >
> > I've just barely managed to finally shuffle and squeeze things down to
> > fit floppies- 7 blocks to spare for kern.flp.
> >
> > I'm going to test them later today to see if they're usable- that't the
> > next step.
> >
> >
> >
> 
> Oh- and here are the diffs- somebody can tell me quickly if they think
> this is wrong.
> 
> It took me so damned long because I didn't realize I could do a chroot
> shell and iteratively work on the constantly breaking release.9 step
> from the release filesystem directly. That's probably something worth
> noting in the man page.
> 
> Salient points:
> 
> + all networking/nfsclient had to be moved to moved to modules
> + have to keep COMPAT_FREEBSD4 (according to many)
> + isp/sym are the only supported SCSI HBAs; mlx is also supported
> (reason: SRM won't boot off any others, so no point in trying to
> include them)
> + ispfw included on floppy 3 so that the number of "why didn't this
> work?" emails can be cut down (yes, before 5.0 ships this will
> all be documented)
> + TurboLaser removed- *some* TurboLasers have a floppy. *All* have
> CDROMs. It's also probably true that because we cannot test TurboLaser
> all that much that this was the extra 40KB needed to fit onto the
> floppy.

Tlaser is probably fsck-ed on -current, judging from it being fsck-ed
on -stable (4.7-RC) as well. Admittedly I have not tried recently.

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