Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 23:52:08 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New drivers and install floppy space Message-ID: <199812060752.XAA03195@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 06 Dec 1998 02:48:33 EST." <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812060247030.19413-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net>
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> On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, David O'Brien wrote: > > > > This limitation is not that major as most current BIOSes support the > > > 2.8 format. > > > > Current maybe.. but I think you underestimate the number of older > > machines people install FreeBSD on. > > But those `older machines' tend not to support booting from CD. Try many older PCI motherboards with PCI SCSI controllers (a very common scenario). The real concern is actually bugs in the bootable CDROM support; there are plenty of BIOS revisions out there that don't do it properly with 1.44MB images. The situation with 2.88MB ones is likely to be worse. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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