From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 4 10:19:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E02237B401 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 10:19:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newsguy.com (smtp.newsguy.com [129.250.170.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 781DA43F75 for ; Sun, 4 May 2003 10:19:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (200-140-081-201.bsace7025.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.140.81.201]) by newsguy.com (8.9.1p2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA73372; Sun, 4 May 2003 10:18:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3EB54B79.8020209@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 14:18:49 -0300 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,pt,en-GB,en-US,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Schultz References: <3EB450E0.9060702@octopus.com.au> <20030503235911.GA64288@shall.anarcat.ath.cx> <3EB45D98.50106@octopus.com.au> <20030503.191127.113104360.imp@bsdimp.com> <3EB51C7B.9020505@jocose.org> In-Reply-To: <3EB51C7B.9020505@jocose.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Floppy Support X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 17:19:07 -0000 Peter Schultz wrote: > > Since we need to keep the floppies, why don't we create a number of > custom kern.flp images? This is a current issue of vital importance and > must not be ingnored any longer. Why, a simple rackmount system > compatible kernel.gz could easily be less than 1MB in size. The problem with drivers.flp being? -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org capo@professional.bsdconspiracy.net Spellng is overated anywy.