From owner-freebsd-current Sun Dec 6 17:47:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA29997 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:47:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA29992 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 17:47:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from lot.gsoft.com.au (lot.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.106]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA03847; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 12:16:37 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199812060720.XAA02870@dingo.cdrom.com> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 12:16:37 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Mike Smith Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Jordan K. Hubbard" , obrien@NUXI.com Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 06-Dec-98 Mike Smith wrote: > No. The way that bootable CDROMs work is that the BIOS pretends that a > 1.44MB region at the beginning of the CDROM is actually a 1.44MB floppy > disk. Or 2.88Mb.. Not a solution, but some more space.. Hmm.. actually, the El Torrito spec says you can emulate a HD as well.. Of course thats the spec, I have absolutly no idea how that is reflected in reality. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message