From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 18 18:38:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19179 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:38:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.243.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19174 for ; Sat, 18 Jul 1998 18:38:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA22125 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:37:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 03:37:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme Message-Id: <199807190137.DAA22125@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Make release fails because kernel is too large Newsgroups: list.freebsd-current Organization: Administration Heim 3 Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 RZTUC(3) PL2] Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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 have to agree with Jordan's "no". Only a few (modern) BIOS versions are able to read and boot from non-standard floppy formats (> 18 sectors/track). Many older BIOS versions don't support this. As far as Win95 floppies are concerned: The boot floppy has a standard 1440 kb format, but the remaining floppies have non-standard formats. This is safe, because they're read by Microsoft's own code, not by the BIOS. If the FreeBSD install floppy is split into two, the second one could be 1680 kb, provided that FreeBSD's own floppy driver is used. (1720 kb is a bad idea anyway, because it requires > 80 tracks, which can be a problem with certain no-name floppies or disk drives.) Regards Oliver PS: My 2 cents: I'd prefer to have _one_ install floppy. This is very convenient, especially if there are problems and you have to experiment and boot several times. -- Oliver Fromme, Leibnizstr. 18-61, 38678 Clausthal, Germany (Info: finger userinfo:olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message