Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:17:43 +0300 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, current@FreeBSD.org, sparc64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Floppyless release build of sparc64 Message-ID: <20030725211743.GC34677@sunbay.com> In-Reply-To: <20030725203914.GA39174@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200307230553.h6N5rrpN058773@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030723061643.GC45101@sunbay.com> <20030723155758.GA372@locore.ca> <20030723160730.GA17720@sunbay.com> <20030724185510.GB85582@dragon.nuxi.com> <20030724205010.GB90484@sunbay.com> <20030725203914.GA39174@dragon.nuxi.com>
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--YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:39:14PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 11:50:10PM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > boot.flp is actually useful on sparc64 because you can dd it to a= disk > > > > > from solaris and then boot off it to install. I'm happy with hav= ing > > > > > the option of not building it if it saves time but please make it= an > > > > > option. > > > >=20 > > > > OK, then things will be left as is. There's already an option for > > > > this; it's called NO_FLOPPIES (documented in the release(7) manpage= ). > > >=20 > > > BUT the size of the "floppy" should be something like 10MB so that we > > > know we will *never* overflow it during "make release". > > >=20 > > Should the need arise for that, it's a two-line change to release/Makef= ile, > > by just bumping MFSSIZE and BIGBOOTSIZE for sparc64. >=20 > You're missing the point. The size should be set now to something that > will *never* be too small. Waiting until "make release" is broken is > stupid in this case. >=20 I will leave this up to the sparc64 port maintainers, okay? Cheers, --=20 Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA, ru@sunbay.com Sunbay Software Ltd, ru@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/IZ52Ukv4P6juNwoRAlMqAJ0c0PTdLZ1uSMNb0GmNI6VVtLZoYgCaAgv+ V2Da17qi4iaNGZkYTU9PRnk= =bitA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ--
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