Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 13:06:24 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Markus Trippelsdorf <markus@trippelsdorf.de> Subject: Re: AMD64 boot floppies Message-ID: <200601031306.25611.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <43BAB237.8020002@samsco.org> References: <200512301245.57820.andrea@brancatelli.it> <20060103171458.GA688@bsd.trippelsdorf.de> <43BAB237.8020002@samsco.org>
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On Tuesday 03 January 2006 12:19 pm, Scott Long wrote: > Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:54:39AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >>Markus Trippelsdorf wrote: > >>>On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 08:00:49PM -0800, 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/floppie > >>>>>>>s/ > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>>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. > >>> > >>>But I guess, the are many AMD64 machines that don't have a CDROM- or > >>>DVD- burner build in. For these machines a few floppy images to start a > >>>network installation would be helpful. > >> > >>My impression was the floppy drives are disappearing from servers faster > >>than CDROM drives are. It's certainly possible to start generating > >>floppies for amd64, but that has not been done in a very long time, so > >>it could turn into a big mess of unknown bugs. Also, we will eventually > >>move to a new installer, one that cannot easily fit onto floppies. That > >>day might not happen today or tomorrow, but it will happen sometime. > >>Most server systems these days do support PXE booting, and that can > >>actually be more convenient than floppies if handled correctly. > > > > Just an example: > > When I upgraded my old Celeron box a year ago, I had to buy a CDROM > > burner, so that I could burn the install CD for my new machine. Since > > than it is sitting idle in its slot. Had a floppy image been available > > at that time, it would have saved me the ~30 Euro for the burner. > > BTW, all other main BSD variants offer floppy images for the AMD64 > > architecture. > > I'll happily accept patches from anyone who is interested in turning > floppy support back on for amd64. I'm not rejecting the idea, I'm just > saying that it might have some risks, and the overall long-term future > is murky. Should be pretty simple actually (untested): Index: Makefile =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/release/Makefile,v retrieving revision 1.895 diff -u -r1.895 Makefile --- Makefile 2 Jan 2006 13:29:58 -0000 1.895 +++ Makefile 3 Jan 2006 18:05:12 -0000 @@ -219,6 +219,12 @@ MFSLABEL= auto SEPARATE_LIVEFS= .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "amd64" +MAKE_FLOPPIES= true +FLOPPYSIZE= 1440 +FLOPPYSPLITSIZE= 1392 +FLOPPYINODE= 40000 +FLOPPYLABEL= fd1440 +BOOTINODE= 80000 MFSSIZE= 4096 MFSINODE= 8192 MFSLABEL= auto -- 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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