From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 30 19:47:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id TAA08892 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:47:29 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id TAA08882 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 19:47:25 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA03129; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:16:44 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199510310346.OAA03129@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Obtaining 720k Boot Image To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 14:16:43 +1030 (CST) Cc: aa977@cleveland.Freenet.Edu, questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510310310.NAA03011@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Oct 31, 95 01:40:40 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 848 Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith stands accused of saying: > Completely impossible, I'm afraid. The kernel won't fit on a 720K floppy, > let alone the installation tools. Actually, looking at it again, you _might_ be able to build a kernel that would fit on a 720K floppy, but you'd need a seperate root filesystem, and the tools to build it all. It's still impossible from your point of view, though 8) > > James M. Cassidy "Quant" | 1848MOO Wizard Myth II MUSE Immortal -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[