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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,
> could any of you please review the attached patch?  (It makes
> Alpha similar to AMD64 regarding floppies, i.e., no floppies.)
...
>  .elif ${TARGET_ARCH} == "alpha"
...
> +NO_FLOPPIES=
...
> Index: alpha/dokern.sh
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: alpha/dokern.sh
> diff -N alpha/dokern.sh
> --- alpha/dokern.sh	28 Jul 2003 18:22:07 -0000	1.73
> +++ /dev/null	1 Jan 1970 00:00:00 -0000
> @@ -1,66 +0,0 @@
> -#!/bin/sh
> -#
> -# $FreeBSD: src/release/alpha/dokern.sh,v 1.73 2003/07/28 18:22:07 ru Exp $
..snip..


Its not that we want NO_FLOPPIES, we want a single MFSROOT floppy that is
like 10MB large.  This is something you can dd(1) onto a disk and install
from.  We still need dokern.sh to change the ident, and other minor
things.  But there should be no seperate driver floppy, etc..