Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 15:46:47 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812072346.PAA00838@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 02:48:59 %2B0100." <199812070148.CAA13594@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> But... we have 1.44 MB on the CD... Since the bios manages to read the > file, wouldn't there be a generic way that we could also read something > from the CD? So that we could make a floppy which does a call and reads a > 5 MB image from the CD, and unpacks the kernel with MFS from that, with > full drivers and a nice splash image, too. :-) > But, lemme guess: "Sorry... There's no way to fool the BIO to read the CD" ? Correct. However Daniel's point about emulating a harddisk is a good one; I checked my El Torito docco and discovered I was out of date. If we're going to go off the beaten track, we might as well do it properly. A 10M harddisk image is going to be a much better idea in that case. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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