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From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To: "Thyer, Matthew" <Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au>
Subject: RE: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd)
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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.

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