From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 18:35:55 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9B9316A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:35:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from speedfactory.net (mail6.speedfactory.net [66.23.216.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C0843D5A for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:35:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (unverified [66.23.211.162]) by speedfactory.net (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 5184162 for ; Tue, 03 Jan 2006 13:34:04 -0500 Received: from localhost (john@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k03IZouU094652 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:35:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:36:40 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200512301245.57820.andrea@brancatelli.it> <200512300834.51959.jhb@freebsd.org> <20060103040049.GA54882@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <20060103040049.GA54882@dragon.NUXI.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200601031336.41132.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1226/Tue Jan 3 11:51:16 2006 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=4.2 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on server.baldwin.cx X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=1653887525 Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 18:35:55 -0000 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 <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve" = http://www.FreeBSD.org