Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 16:49:07 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Wilko Bulte <wilko@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Floppies for ALPHA Message-ID: <XFMail.20030730164907.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030729174453.GA1201@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 29-Jul-2003 David O'Brien wrote: > [ Reply-to: set back to list ] > > On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 07:38:48PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:54:36PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: >> > I've got that feeling that the consensus was to drop the floppy >> > support for Alpha, as supporting it becomes a nightmare. If so, >> >> Yes, that consensus seems to be there. Finally.. :) >> >> The question is if the way forward is a minimini.iso so a really >> minimal ISO image (<< in size that miniinst.iso) or some other mechanism >> like NetBSD or ancient SunOS 3.x used. Which, IIRC, was an image one dropped >> in to the swap area of a disk and booted from. > > Why do we have to choose one? We should offer multiple ways (as we do > today). The problem is not offering a small downloadable image to > install an Alpha from -- but that 1.44MB is a ridiculous size constraint > for that image. All we need is a truly miniiso. More of a boot-only iso. The same thing could be stuck in a UFS image if people wish. Basically a /R/cdrom/boot that contains just the /boot directory contents. People can then either make an ISO from that or they can make a UFS image and dd it to a disk. This would be orthogonal to floppies, btw. Probably we would always create the boot.iso area under /R and on archs that can use it, we can create a UFS disk image that contains that system. On the other hand, if dd'ing an actual ISO works fine, then we could just leave it at that. -- 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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