Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:13:44 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <3DC81868.9080700@mukappabeta.de> References: <XFMail.20021105093952.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: > This is what we do already. Even i386 now uses 3 floppies to install. The problem is > that a really, really stripped down 5.0 kernel still doesn't fit onto kern.flp with the > loader. Why can't it span several floppies, then? I don't know the innards of the boot-loader being used but where's the problem simply printing a "insert next floppy" when loading from one floppy is done, and continue reading the kernel with the next floppy? A similar things is being done with mfsroot anyways, isn't it? Why should the capacity of a floppy disk restrict the size of kernels being booted? -- Matthias Buelow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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