From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 4: 4: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DDA437B406; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id f8DB3hG08396; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:03:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 04:03:43 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Wilko Bulte Cc: Jordan Hubbard , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Message-ID: <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl>; from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 11:26:40AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 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 11:26:40AM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > 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 Only after someone spends the time to fix src/release/Makefile to produce a boot image intended for CDROM booting. There is no reason we cannot have a 5 MB CD-ROM boot kernel image on the Alpha. Thus we would not need to cut anything out. JKH signed up to do this (poke, poke :-)), but that has yet to happen. Do you know what the size limit is for the CD-ROM boot image on Alpha(SRM)? -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message