Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 09:39:52 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au> Cc: "obrien@FreeBSD.org" <obrien@freebsd.org>, "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@freebsd.org>, "fclift@verio.net" <fclift@verio.net>, "gallatin@cs.duke.edu" <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>, "Wilkinson, Alex" <Alex.Wilkinson@dsto.defence.gov.au> Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <XFMail.20021105093952.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <108E7D907871D6118B5000306E0189F85759A2@ednex504.dsto.defence.gov.au>
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On 05-Nov-2002 Thyer, Matthew wrote: > I'd hope we can split the Alpha boot floppies even further to get around these kind of problems. > > What is required at minimum is the following: This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the loader. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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