Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:25:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthias Buelow <mkb@mukappabeta.de> Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" <alpha@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Message-ID: <XFMail.20021105152500.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3DC81868.9080700@mukappabeta.de>
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On 05-Nov-2002 Matthias Buelow wrote: > 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? We do not currently do this with the mfsroot, it all fits onto mfsroot.flp. As I said earlier, someone did write and commit code for a "splitfs" fs to the loader so that it can do exactly this, but no one has played with getting the scripts to use that feature. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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