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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.

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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>  <><  http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
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