Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 11:42:49 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@acm.org> To: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Floppy Support Message-ID: <3EB55F29.9080706@acm.org> References: <20030504020700.B3CCA37B401@hub.freebsd.org> <20030504040804.GA19654@wjv.com> <20030504044927.GA13584@pit.databus.com>
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Barney Wolff wrote: > Question for the sysinstall gurus: Is there any necessary relation > between the kernel version that is booted from the floppy and the > system version that is being installed? That is, could one boot > a 5.0-R floppy and then tell sysinstall to install a snapshot? It > would make the whole problem moot, if so. Unfortunately, this doesn't make the problem moot. A very new system might have a disk controller, for instance, that's only supported by the newest kernel. In that case, an old boot floppy wouldn't work. I suppose it's time to modify the boot loader to load a single kernel image from multiple floppies. That, at least, would end the continual release breakage: the release builder could just create as many floppy images as necessary. I remember the single-floppy installer; I foresee the 10-floppy installer coming very quickly. ;-) Tim Kientzle
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