From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 2:26:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp8.xs4all.nl (smtp8.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD61237B40F; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 02:26:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp8.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA25304; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:26:41 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8D9QeR45475; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:26:40 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 11:26:40 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Message-ID: <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org>; from jkh@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:00:57AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.4-RC X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:00:57AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Hm. Isn't this a strong sign that something fundamental must be done > > about the boot floppy process? Alpha has been suffering from this longer > > already due to the bigger binaries. > > Hey, be my guest, just so long as we can install from whatever you I knew you would say that ;) > come up with. :-) Seriously, the fact that it needs fundamental fixing > is why we're still using what we do. It's just easier to keep > band-aiding it, as ugly a scenario as that might be. Until you have to leave something essential out and then we are SOL. For alpha I could think of only supporting CD installs, and drop floppies altogether. This follows DECs/CPQs convention of only supporting OS installs from CD. Say a special install CD without packages (140MB or so). W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message