From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jul 16 13:24:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA08289 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.westbend.net (ns1.westbend.net [207.217.224.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA08284 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 13:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Received: from admin (admin.westbend.net [207.217.224.195]) by mail.westbend.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA07529 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:24:23 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hetzels@westbend.net) Message-ID: <00df01bdb0f7$b88cfc60$c3e0d9cf@westbend.net> From: "Scot W. Hetzel" To: Subject: Re: Make release fails because kernel is too large Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:24:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.0518.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Poul-Henning Kamp >Hmm, what was it Jordan said to me that made me agree to kill the 1200K >boot floppy, "and with 1.44 we have plenty of space for a couple of years >at least, well, maybe not that long time but you get the idea..." > >You were right. What's next Jordan ? > What about using 1.68 or 1.72 MB floppies? FDformat can make these kinds of disks for DOS systems ( ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/pc/coast/msdos/diskutil/fdform18.zip , FDformat has sources included (PASCAL)). I also read that mtools might be able to create >1.44MB floppies. So what would it take to get FreeBSD to create 1.68/1.72MB floppies for the release floppies? That would give an extra 240-280K for the boot floppy. Would fdimage need to be updated or replaced? Scot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message