Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 02:48:59 +0100 (CET) From: Mikael Karpberg <karpen@ocean.campus.luth.se> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812070148.CAA13594@ocean.campus.luth.se> In-Reply-To: <199812060720.XAA02870@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Dec 5, 98 11:20:17 pm"
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According to Mike Smith: > > > When a majority can no longer be thusly accommodated, we'll just shrug > > > and ditch it completely in favor of the 2(*)-floppy solution. > > > > It is not that bad. I'm doing more and more boot off the CDROM installs. > > I assume sysinstall + boot kernel can be quite large there. > > Is the boot kernel there a full GENERIC kernel? > > No. The way that bootable CDROMs work is that the BIOS pretends that a > 1.44MB region at the beginning of the CDROM is actually a 1.44MB floppy > disk. > > I wouldn't mind finding the asshole responsible for this fiasco and > doing something traumatic to their lower digestive tract with a > petrol-powered Weed Eater. > > The only ways out of this are: > > - mandate a floppy in addition to the CDROM (sucks) > - add CDROM drivers to the bootloader (ATAPI, SCSI for Adaptec and NCR > at least) > > Both of these are painful. Less so than the Weed Eater, is my guess. :-) 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" ? /Mikael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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