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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?

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