From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 8 14:51:47 2002 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 EFCE237B400; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:51:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7863643E42; Thu, 8 Aug 2002 14:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0394.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.43.139] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17cvBx-0001XD-00; Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:51:38 -0700 Message-ID: <3D52E7B5.94C9270F@mindspring.com> Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 14:50:45 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: lansil@rpi.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: doFS.sh, FreeBSD To Go References: <20020809022403C.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Makoto Matsushita wrote: > BTW, why you want a floppy image for your project? Doesn't 'cdboot' > help you anything? FWIW, I think a floppy image is great. I have a number of older systems from which I cannot boot from the CDROM. It's also desirable from the third party driver perspective, as long as FreeBSD can load kernel modules of a CDROM or DOS floppy in a binary format: it means that someone can sign a non-disclosure agreement with a hardware vendor, create a binary only driver, and then give it to the hardware vendor to have them distribute in the A:\FREEBSD\BIN\ directory. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message