Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2002 08:35:59 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <20021105083559.B5083@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com>; from dev-null@NUXI.com on Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800 References: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au> <20021105002107.GA48239@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 04:21:07PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 10:34:05AM +1030, Thyer, Matthew wrote: > > I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of problems. > ... > > I'm not advocating this just to fix the Alpha problem... it would be a > > good move for any platform and would allow third parties to provide > > modules that could be used at install time. > > Where's the patch??? Or alternatively: get over it. DEC never intended to install any OS on an Alpha from floppy. In the dim dark past of Alpha a decision was made to use CDROMs for that. As long as a miniiso (or maybe a microiso if you wanted to optimise it further) is available why bother with floppies? W/ -- | / o / /_ _ FreeBSD core team secretary |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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