From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 17 03:15:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA13113 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:15:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (geos01.oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com [134.32.44.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA13107 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 03:15:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smoergrd@oslo.sl.slb.com) Received: from sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (sunw110 [192.23.231.54]) by oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id MAA10031 ; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:13:32 +0200 (MET DST) Received: by sunw110.oslo.Geco-Prakla.slb.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id MAA19827; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 12:13:31 +0200 To: Dom Mitchell Cc: ben@rosengart.com, "Scot W. Hetzel" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make release fails because kernel is too large References: Organization: Schlumberger Geco-Prakla X-Disclaimer: I speak only for myself. From: smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) Date: 17 Jul 1998 12:13:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: Dom Mitchell's message of Thu, 16 Jul 1998 22:53:11 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 15 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dom Mitchell writes: > Snob Art Genre writes: > > On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: > > > What about using 1.68 or 1.72 MB floppies? > > I think that this would drastically reduce the amount of > > FreeBSD-friendly hardware out there. > Yes, but don't Microsoft do similiar sorts of things with the Win95 > boot floppies? I know that doesn't grant a right to do so by God, but > it's a fairly clear idea of how much hardware *does* support it. I suggest we revise Goodwin's Law to cover Microsoft and Bill Gates. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message