Date: Fri, 21 Jul 1995 14:18:55 +0600 (GMT+0600) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Why we don't have a 2-floppy boot set ? Message-ID: <199507210818.OAA17993@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <199507200522.WAA16192@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jul 19, 95 10:22:14 pm
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Why we have no bootable 2-floppy set ? I think it's enough easy to solve the problem with lack of spce on the boot floppy. The only thing we need is to add a driver that will be attached the first (or after sc0) and the only thing it will do is to write: Insert the 2nd (root) floppy in the drive and press <Return> and then waits for <Return>. It will work before mounting of root and even before the fd0 probing so there should be no problem with all other code. In result of this we will have 1 floppy with the kernel (upto 1.4M) and 1 floppy with the root file system (upto 1.4M). P.S. I think I can write such pseudodriver if there is no reasons to not do it. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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