Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:46:07 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x Message-ID: <200401121346.07929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20040112182122.GD1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401120826.22052.wes@softweyr.com> <20040112182122.GD1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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On Monday 12 January 2004 01:21 pm, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:26:22AM -0800, Wes Peters wrote: > > On Monday 12 January 2004 07:22 am, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 09:24:38PM +0100, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > Note that I didn't say it would be a lot of work. ;^) > > > > Do we have a volunteer showing up here? > > Definatly not me. I hate floppies (and they hate me). I was just > trying to convince someone to follow what looks like a reasionably > promising path to keeping floppy support and moving the pain of dealing > with floppies from RE to the floppy users. > > -- Brooks I'm going to look at using splitfs for GENERIC kernel and mfsroot that we use on CD installs. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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