From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 11:14: 0 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 54FBD37B401; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:13:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de [132.187.101.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EAC0543E75; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 11:13:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Received: from mukappabeta.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wi4d22.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gA5JDiN1017331; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 20:13:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mkb@mukappabeta.de) Message-ID: <3DC81868.9080700@mukappabeta.de> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 20:13:44 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021024 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Baldwin Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 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