Date: Tue, 08 Dec 1998 00:02:44 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), obrien@NUXI.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <85082.913104164@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 08 Dec 1998 03:52:03 %2B0100." <199812080252.DAA16632@ocean.campus.luth.se>
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> > 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. > > Probably... If all BIOSes that handle CDROM booting can handle that... Which is as good a time as any to make a *practical* suggestion and get us moving back in the direction of progress, I think. :-) Let's postpone this discussion for another 15 days or so, until Mike can return (to the US) from the Australian location he's currently occupying. He and I will look over his spec and see if we can't hack mkisofs into using a 10MB image rather than the 1.44MB image it uses now and I'll beat some release bits into actually using that 10MB image in some reasonably productive way, say as a super fixit disk/small X terminal, and burn about 10 copies of the resulting CD. Then I'll come back here and ask those of you who are currently able to boot the 2.2.x or 3.0 release CDs on your machines to contact me with information on your configuration. We'll pick out 10 people who seem to represent a reasonably diverse collection of CD-booters and send them a copy of of this. If it works on all 10, that will be a good sign. If it does not, it won't be and we can rethink this. :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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