Date: Thu, 08 Aug 2002 22:13:31 +0300 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3 floppy system for -current releases Message-ID: <3D52C2DB.F81E78F6@FreeBSD.org> References: <200208081855.g78ItZ966903@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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John Hay wrote: > > > Did you look at split images loading feature, which the loader(8) had > > for quite some time now? My feeling is that you can do the same thing > > but much easier, by just spliting out mfsroot over two or more > > floppies. See > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/lib/libstand/splitfs.c for > > details. > > But then everyone needs to boot with 3 floppies. With my way, we can > hopefully select the optimum so that most people will only need 2 > floppies, ie the most popular drivers should go on mfsroot.flp. Both approaches have its own advantages and disadvantages. IMO, big disadvantage of your method is that user needs to know which drivers he really wants, which makes installation less fool-prof for novice users. -Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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