From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 13 9:42:42 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from smtp9.xs4all.nl (smtp9.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50CA037B40A; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 09:42:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtp9.xs4all.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA09004; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:14:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.11.6/8.11.4) id f8DFE1F46290; Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:14:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:14:01 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: "David O'Brien" Cc: Jordan Hubbard , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern.flp blown out again Message-ID: <20010913171401.E46156@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20010913014332U.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913105806.B45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913020057E.jkh@freebsd.org> <20010913112640.C45320@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010913040343.A8280@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 04:03:43AM -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 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 > 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