From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 12 11:07:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EEFF16A4CE for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:07:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail4.speakeasy.net (mail4.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.204]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB8B43D73 for ; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:06:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6358 invoked from network); 12 Jan 2004 19:06:10 -0000 Received: from dsl027-160-063.atl1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) encrypted SMTP for ; 12 Jan 2004 19:06:10 -0000 Received: from 10.50.40.206 (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0CJ65M0064426; Mon, 12 Jan 2004 14:06:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) From: John Baldwin To: Brooks Davis , Wes Peters Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:46:07 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20040108163724.GA26745@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <200401120826.22052.wes@softweyr.com> <20040112182122.GD1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040112182122.GD1762@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200401121346.07929.jhb@FreeBSD.org> X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:07:56 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org