Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:39:02 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@FreeBSD.ORG>, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 20884 for review Message-ID: <XFMail.20021109093902.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <200211090702.gA972ACj025344@intruder.bmah.org>
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On 09-Nov-2002 Bruce A. Mah wrote: > If memory serves me right, "David O'Brien" wrote: >> On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 03:52:48PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: >> > + <para>Installations from boot floppies are no longer supported on >> > + the alpha platform. The combination of the boot loader and a >> > + (highly stripped-down) kernel is too large to fit on a >> > + 1.44 MB floppy disk. Some work in this area is ongoing; >> > + this feature <emphasis>may</emphasis> return before &os; >> > + &release.next;.</para> >> >> Perhaps mention that one can 'dd' a relatively small install image on an >> HD to make up for the desupport of floppy installs? > > Sounds good. Do we have a procedure for making up such an image? I'm > kind of clueless on this... You could dd an ISO image onto the disk and it would work. -- 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 p4-releng" in the body of the message
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