Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:36:40 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <200601031336.41132.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060103040049.GA54882@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200512301245.57820.andrea@brancatelli.it> <200512300834.51959.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060103040049.GA54882@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On Monday 02 January 2006 11:00 pm, David O'Brien wrote: > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 08:34:50AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Friday 30 December 2005 08:05 am, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 12:45:57PM +0100, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > > > > For i386 we have > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.0-RELEASE/floppies/ > > > > but for Amd64 there's no > > > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/6.0-RELEASE/floppies > > > >/ > > > > > > > > How can I get installation floppies for 6.0 / amd64? > > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/installation-amd64.html#FLOPPIES > > > > FYI, it would be trivial to support with the splitfs stuff now. You'd > > basically just need to copy over the variables from i386 to set the > > sizes, etc. > > please, Please, PLEASE no... why add the pain of floppies to the release > mix when no one in their right mind as an AMD64 machine that has a floppy > drive AND doesn't have a CDROM (or DVD) drive. What pain? We no longer use custom kernels for floppy images. I think I've successfully removed the pain from floppies now. See the simple 5 or 6-line patch I posted in a reply to Scott. The makefiles now take care of splitting a GENERIC kernel up into however many floppies are needed, etc. The only possible change is that if the entire mfsroot doesn't fit on boot.flp you have to add 1 more line to define SPLIT_MFSROOT as on Alpha and then you are done. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org
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