Date: 08 May 1998 14:52:38 +0200 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= ) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-lib@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libftpio ftpio.c Message-ID: <xzplnscudpl.fsf@skejdbrimir.ifi.uio.no> In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 05:35:19 -0700" References: <20694.894630919@time.cdrom.com>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> writes: > No, not really, not anymore anyway. I'd be just as happy to see us go > to a larger fragment size if it doesn't screw up the floppy folk too > much (don't forget - they need to stick the foo.inf file on the very > first floppy, so it can't be exactly 1.44MB in size or even relatively > close given what's taken for FS overhead). As much as I'd like to > kill the floppy installation entirely (it penalizes _all_ the other > installation types by enforcing this kind of multi-piece braindamage), > I don't think we can get away with that yet. Anybody willing to install FreeBSD from floppies ought to be given a medal for patience. Anyway, can't we just make the first fragment slightly smaller than the others to make room for the .inf file? -- Noone else has a .sig like this one.
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