From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Nov 1 13:18:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EF7737B401 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:18:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C4B43E77 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:18:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.2) with ESMTP id gA1LI4CE011090 for ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:18:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gA1LGnpi011061 for alpha@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:16:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:16:47 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 Message-ID: <20021101211647.GA11031@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: alpha@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: David O'Brien , alpha@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [From address modified because I don't want every message in this thread to end up in my personal mailbox. I'll read them in the list, thank you very much.] It has become very hard to produce boot floppies for 5.0 on the Alpha platform. The kernel has just grown too large. The amount of effort required to get 'make release' to properly build the floppy images just requires too much effort. This email is just to inform the Alpha community of this situation. We do desire to offer a small boot image (say 8 MB) that one can 'dd' onto the beginning of a hard disk and boot from that to do an install. This should serve the same need that the existing boot floppies do in FreeBSD 4.x. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message