Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 07:22:39 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <20040112152239.GA1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040111202438.GA55331@pc5.i.0x5.de> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401101945.27234.wes@softweyr.com> <400108FC.9010008@iconoplex.co.uk> <200401110048.52747.wes@softweyr.com> <40011237.3000409@iconoplex.co.uk> <xzp3camsuyu.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040111092746.GA836@pc5.i.0x5.de> <20040111190240.GA28161@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040111202438.GA55331@pc5.i.0x5.de>
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--nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > * Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> [2004-01-11 11:02 -0800]: > > If you could make this work such that you just stuffed GENERIC and the > > mfsroot onto however many floppies it takes, I think that would almost > > certaintly solve re's problems with floppies (i.e. if all they had to do > > when the kernel/mfsroot got too big was to bump a NUMFLOPPIES > > variable.) Sure that would suck for the floppy users, but that would > > put the pain in the place where it's most likely to cause someone to > > come up with some better. > >=20 > > Now, who wants to give this a try? >=20 > OK, I tried now the following: >=20 > I made copies of the 4.9 RELEASE Floppies, split the half of the > kernel and mfsroot to another floppy and added two appropriate > splitfiles. >=20 > Afterwards booting from these four disks worked fine. >=20 > disk1: > /boot > /kernel.gz.split > /kernel.gzaa >=20 > "Message from libstand" >=20 > disk2: > /kernel.gzab >=20 > "Message from loader.rc" >=20 > disk3: > /mfsroot.gz.split > /mfsroot.gzaa >=20 > "Message from libstand" >=20 > disk4: > /mfsroot.gzab >=20 >=20 > I don't know the release build process, so I don't know how much > effort is neccessary to create such floppies, but the loader seems to > have all features needed to use such disks. It sounds like this is definatly a viable option. Now someone needs to see about hacking something like this into the release makefiles. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAAru9XY6L6fI4GtQRAu5ZAKCVVwnDZzYHPG03Ea1e6ivQG+rDqQCcC6iz P8tIQP+NWWzqSHwCeacPRpg= =0MRd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nFreZHaLTZJo0R7j--
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