From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 5 12:25: 7 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 D548D37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:25:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail13.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.213]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CD0143E77 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 12:25:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 15209 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2002 20:25:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 5 Nov 2002 20:25:08 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA5KOxn5049455; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 15:25:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3DC81868.9080700@mukappabeta.de> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2002 15:25:00 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Matthias Buelow Subject: Re: HEADS UP, floppy installs desupported for 5.0 (fwd) Cc: "alpha@freebsd.org" 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 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 <>< 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