From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 4 17:46:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA19578 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 17:46:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from silver.gn.iaf.nl (silver.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA19500 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 17:45:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by silver.gn.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA21521; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:45:37 +0100 Received: by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA04947 (5.67b/IDA-1.5); Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:42:07 +0100 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.8/8.6.12) id CAA04929; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:37:55 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199812050137.CAA04929@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space In-Reply-To: <1750.912814733@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 4, 98 03:38:53 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 02:37:55 +0100 (CET) Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > I'm on the verge of committing four new fast ethernet device drivers > > to -current, however I'm a bit concerned about running out of space on > > the installation floppy (these drivers will be added to the GENERIC > > Even if we do hit a wall, we can always make it a kern.flp only feature. Eventually with the growing hardware support we would be back at a 2 floppy boot set it seems. Not a problem in my opinion, but is there a general strategy or is it simply 'waiting for the wall'? With sysinstall in re-work this might be the time to consider this 'floppy full' issue. Just my $0.02 Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message