Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:14:01 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@freebsd.org>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Message-ID: <20010913171401.E46156@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0700 References: <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > 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 <nod> > 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)? I don't know of any size limit. Tru64 install CDs have 10MB (or so) kernels on them. -- | / 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
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