Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 16:01:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Duraid Madina <duraid@octopus.com.au> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <XFMail.20030505160156.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3EB44FD3.30601@octopus.com.au>
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On 03-May-2003 Duraid Madina wrote: > Cliff L. Biffle wrote: > >> On Saturday 03 May 2003 06:16 am, Duraid Madina wrote: >> >>>Can anyone give a *good* reason why floppies should still be supported >>>from this point onwards? >> >> >> 1. El Torito. Last I checked, under emulation, 2.88MB was the largest boot >> image available, so fitting the bootloader/kernel/etc. onto two floppies is >> still quite significant. > > We could use El Torito's "type 4" hard disk emulation. Installing > FreeBSD from such an environment seems a little gross, but religiously > mangling kernels to fit onto 1.44Mb floppies seems worse. We already use the type 3 no emulation mode to boot both on 4.8 and 5.0. -- 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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