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Date:      Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:17:37 -0700
From:      "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
To:        "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cannot creeat boot.std floppy 
Message-ID:  <15146.907003057@time.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 28 Sep 1998 10:57:08 EDT." <199809281457.KAA01886@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> 

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>    I am unable to create the boot floppy due to a lack of
> space. The last I saw come across concerning this was the 
> removal of tape install support by jkh.

Correction: I didn't remove all tape install support, simply floppy
tape install support.

>    I modified doFS.sh to get some blocksize info before
> the failure which follows below. If we are not going to
> currently support tape devices, should we not also remove
> it from the BOOTMFS config file? ie:
> 
> device          sa0
> tape            ft0     at fdc0 drive 2

Good point - done.

>    and do we really need the following in a boot kernel?

Yes, it seems we do.

>    and do we need vx0 with Bill Paul's (I think thats the name) work?

Yes.  It covers a different set of cards than xl0.

- Jordan


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